The Last Samurai
 

The Last Samurai

by Helen DeWitt

Helen DeWitt's extraordinary debut, The Last Samurai, centers on the relationship between Sibylla, a single mother of precocious and rigorous intelligence, and her son, who, owing to his mother's singular attitude to education, develops into a prodigy of learning. Ludo reads Homer in the original Greek at 4 before moving on to Hebrew, Japanese, Old Norse, and Inuit; studying advanced... (read more)

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Sweet and funny book about a highly gifted 11 year old boy who tries to find out who is father is. He doesn't go to school, but is an amazing scholar who learns independently from books with his mother's guidance. He and his mom don't have much money so they often spend the day reading on the subway to stay warm. When his mother won't tell him who is father is, he follows a quest similiar to that of his favorite movie, Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai. DeWitt does a great job of conveying the...

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