{"product_id":"last-samurai","title":"Last Samurai","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Fiercely intelligent, very funny and unlike anything else I’ve ever read’ MARK HADDON\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Original...witty...playful…a wonderfully funny book'' JAMES WOOD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A triumph – a genuinely new story, a genuinely new form'' A. S. BYATT\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEleven-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. \u003ci\u003eIs\u003c\/i\u003e he a genius? A real-life child prodigy? He’s grown up watching \u003ci\u003eSeven Samurai\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57305989775742,"sku":"NW9781784707965","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781784707965.jpg?v=1778512890","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/last-samurai","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}