Brossura, 494 pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il Maggio 2011 da Vintage Digital.
The Last Samurai
di Helen Dewitt
- ISBN:
- 978-1-78470-796-5
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Eleven-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 up watching Seven Samurai on a hypnotising loop – his mother’s strategy to give him not one but seven male role models. And yet Ludo remains obsessed with the one thing his mother refuses to tell him: his real father’s name. Let loose on London, Ludo sets out on a secret quest to find the last samurai – the father he never knew.
Argomenti
- Mothers and sons
- Father figures
- Fiction
- Americans
- Gifted children
- Absentee fathers
- Single mothers
- Exceptional children
- Fiction, general
- Mothers and sons, fiction
- London (england), fiction