{"product_id":"the-last-samurai","title":"The Last Samurai","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Last Samurai\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eHelen DeWitt\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780811225502\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eNew Directions\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2016\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e576\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eHelen DeWitt's 2000 debut, \u003cem\u003eThe Last Samurai\u003c\/em\u003e, was \"destined to become a cult classic\" (Miramax). The enterprising publisher sold the rights in twenty countries, so \"Why not just, 'destined to become a classic?'\" (Garth Risk Hallberg) And why must cultists tell the uninitiated it has nothing to do with Tom Cruise?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSibylla, an American-at-Oxford turned loose on London, finds herself trapped as a single mother after a misguided one-night stand. High-minded principles of child-rearing work disastrously well. J. S. Mill (taught Greek at three) and Yo Yo Ma (Bach at two) claimed the methods would work with any child; when these succeed with the boy Ludo, he causes havoc at school and is home again in a month. (Is he a prodigy, a genius? Readers looking over Ludo's shoulder find themselves easily reading Greek and more.) Lacking male role models for a fatherless boy, Sibylla turns to endless replays of Kurosawa's masterpiece \u003cem\u003eSeven Samurai\u003c\/em\u003e. But Ludo is obsessed with the one thing he wants and doesn't know: his father's name. At eleven, inspired by his own take on the classic film, he sets out on a secret quest for the father he never knew. He'll be punched, sliced, and threatened with retribution. He may not live to see twelve. Or he may find a real samurai and save a mother who thinks boredom a fate worse than death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"New Directions","offers":[{"title":"The Last Samurai | Helen DeWitt | Paperback | 9780811225502 | New | Fiction 1405590","offer_id":50561086521602,"sku":"1405590","price":37.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/61t2aehfMsL.jpg?v=1790705205","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/the-last-samurai","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}