-Fiercely intelligent, very funny and unlike anything else I-ve ever read- MARK HADDON
''Original...witty...playful-a wonderfully funny book'' JAMES WOOD
''A triumph - a genuinely new story, a genuinely new form'' A. S. BYATT
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.
