The Last Samurai RereadConsidered by some to be the greatest novel of the twenty first century, Helen DeWitt's brilliant The Last Samurai tells the story of Sibylla, an Oxford educated single mother raising a possible child prodigy, Ludo. Disappointed when he meets his biological father, the boy decides that he can do better. Inspired by Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, he embarks on a quixotic, moving quest to find a suitable father. The novel's cult classic status did not