The Last Samurai

‘Fiercely intelligent, very funny and unlike anything else I’ve ever read’ MARK HADDON''Original...witty...playful…a wonderfully funny book'' JAMES WOOD''A triumph – a genuinely new story, a genui ...

‘Fiercely intelligent, very funny and unlike anything else I’ve ever read’ MARK HADDON''Original...witty...playful…a wonderfully funny book'' JAMES WOOD''A triumph – a genuinely new story, a genuinely new form'' A. S. BYATTEleven-year-old Ludo is in search of a father. Raised singlehandedly by his mother Sibylla, Ludo’s been reading Greek, Arabic, Japanese and a little Hebrew since the age of four; but reading Homer in the original whilst riding the Circle Line on the London Underground isn’t enough to satisfy the boy’s boundless curiosity. Is he a genius? A real-life child prodigy? He’s grown