{"product_id":"last-samurai","title":"Last Samurai","description":"\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 \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\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.","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Last Samurai","offer_id":45601392132293,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-78470-796-5.jpg?v=1767831692","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/last-samurai","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}