Description
Book SynopsisCalled “remarkable” (The Wall Street Journal) and “an ambitious, colossal debut novel” (Publishers Weekly), Helen DeWitt’s The Last Samurai is back in print at lastTrade Review"[...] a Molotov cocktail of a book, an incendiary experience for readers that breaks through the mundanity of life, work, and love to achieve greatness." -- Off the Shelf
"A triumph—a genuinely new story, a genuinely new form." -- A. S. Byatt - The New Yorker
"
The Last Samurai is an original work of brilliance about, in part, the limits of brilliance." -- Time
"The book has been a great source of motivation for me. I must outdo Ludo, because he is younger than I am but smarter than I am. My father says that this is ridiculous, as Ludo is a fictional character. But this is precisely my point: how can I let a character who isn’t even real outdo me?" -- Daniel (age 14)
