The last samurai / Helen DeWitt.

• Sibylla, an American-at-Oxford turned loose on London, finds herself trapped as a single mother after a misguided one-night stand. High-minded principles of child-rearing work disastrously well. J.S. Mill (taught Greek at three) and Yo Yo Ma (Bach at two) claimed the methods would work with any child; when these succeed with the boy Ludo, he causes havoc at school and is home again in a month. (Is he a prodigy, a genius? Readers looking over Ludo's shoulder find themselves easily reading Greek and more.) Lacking male role models for a fatherless boy, Sibylla turns to endless replays of Kurosawa's masterpiece Seven Samurai. But Ludo is obsessed with the one thing he wants and doesn't know: his father's name. At eleven, inspired by his own take on the classic film, he sets out on a secret quest for the father he never knew. He'll be punched, sliced, and threatened with retribution. He may not live to see twelve. Or he may find a real samurai and save a mother who thinks boredom a fate worse than death. 

Ämnesord

Amerikaner  (sao)

Fadersgestalter  (sao)

Begåvade barn  (sao)

Mor-sonrelationer  (sao)

Americans  -- England -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Mothers and sons  -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Gifted children  -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Father figures  -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Mothers and sons  (lcsh)

Father figures  (lcsh)

Gifted children  (lcsh)

Americans  (lcsh)

Storbritannien  -- London (sao)

London (England)  -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Genre

Utvecklingsromaner  (saogf)

Familjeskildringar  (saogf)

Romaner  (saogf)

Domestic fiction.  (lcgft)

Bildungsromans.  (lcgft)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Heq.01 Skönlitteratur: amerikansk: romaner och noveller

Klassifikation

PS3554.E92945 (LCC)

813/.54 (DDC)

Heq.01 (kssb/8)