num_pages: 544
description: A child prodigy with a talent for languages and an insatiable thirst for knowledge, Ludo shares with his single mother, Sibylla, an obsession with Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, absorbing its lessons in Samurai virtue, and embarks on a quest to find his father, approaching seven men to test their worthiness. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.
language: English
title: The Last Samurai
titlecomplete: The Last Samurai
characters: Hugh Carey, George Sorabji, Mr. Watkins, Mustafa Szegeti, Ludo Newman, Sibylla Newman, Red Devlin, Kenzo Yamamoto, Val Peters
genres: American, Classics, 21st Century, Japan, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 8342
places: United Kingdom, London, England
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Dublin Literary Award
category: Shortlist
publisher: Miramax