Helen DeWitt: The Last Samurai
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- Kustantaja: NEW DIRECTIONS PUBLISHING CORPORATION
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9780811225502
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Helen DeWitt s 2000 debut, The Last Samurai, 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? Sibylla, 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 Seven Samurai. 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. '