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The Last Samurai

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A cult classic finally back in print. An eleven-year-old prodigy...Kurosawa's Seven Samurai...a secret quest. Don't you want to know what you were missing?

Called “remarkable” (The Wall Street Journal) and “an ambitious, colossal debut novel” (Publishers Weekly), Helen DeWitt’s The Last Samurai is back in print at last

Helen DeWitt’s 2000 debut, The Last Samurai, was “destined to become a cult classic” (Miramax). The enterprising publisher sold the rights in twenty countries, so “Why not just, ‘destined to become a classic?’” (Garth Risk Hallberg) And why must cultists tell the uninitiated it has nothing to do with Tom Cruise?

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The Last Samurai

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Paul La Farge revisit’s Helen DeWitt’s novel in which intellectual playfulness is at the core of a boy’s education.
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