
The Last Samurai
by Drew
The Short Version: After a one-night stand, Sibylla – an American first studying at Oxford and then surviving on odd jobs in London – finds herself raising Ludo, a precocious young boy with a hunger for knowledge. She turns to the classics (languages, works of fiction and non-fiction, and Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai) to craft his education and by age 11, he is beyond ready to find his father. So he sets out to do so. The Review: The Last Samurai has developed […]
Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Classics, Fiction, Film, Helen DeWitt, Literature, London, New Directions, Philosophy, Reviews, Seven Samurai, The Last Samurai