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The Last Samurai 8487
The Last Samurai 8487
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A child prodigy with a talent for languages and an insatiable thirst for knowledge, Ludo shares with his single mother, Sibylla, an obsession with Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, absorbing its lessons in Samurai virtue, and embarks on a quest to find his father, approaching seven men to test their worthiness.
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.
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‘Imagine the written version of an orchestral suite, different instruments taking their turns cutting in and out, challenging, responding, developing themes, repeating themes, breaking off for a little bit of opera here, a little pas-de-deux there with a couple of guest solos thrown in, while nevertheless returning continually to the main theme and finally leading into a very fitting coda. That’s what reading this book was like for me.
Books like The Last Samurai don’t come my way very often which is a great pity.
On the other hand, reading The Last Samurai has exercised my brain so much that maybe it is a good thing that there aren’t too many like it out there.
Imagine if I became obsessed with this book and reread it as often as the narrators watch Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai? Would I then have rudimentary Japanese plus a smattering of Greek, Hebrew and Arabic, be able to understand complex maths and physics and aerodynamics, play excellent chess, bridge and picquet as well as the XXV variations of Alkan’s Festin d’Aesope on the piano and appreciate every last twist and turn of the plot of Seven Samurai? I’m tempted…‘ – Amazon Review
On the other hand, reading The Last Samurai has exercised my brain so much that maybe it is a good thing that there aren’t too many like it out there.
Imagine if I became obsessed with this book and reread it as often as the narrators watch Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai? Would I then have rudimentary Japanese plus a smattering of Greek, Hebrew and Arabic, be able to understand complex maths and physics and aerodynamics, play excellent chess, bridge and picquet as well as the XXV variations of Alkan’s Festin d’Aesope on the piano and appreciate every last twist and turn of the plot of Seven Samurai? I’m tempted…‘ – Amazon Review
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