Recommended by languagehat.
Noticed: 2009-05-10
Acquired: 2009-06-09
Started: 2010-02-05
Finished: 2010-02-10
The Last Samurai
Helen De Witt
This would have been a solid book, if it hadn't changed directions several times midway through. As it is, it's an amazing book. It's about a prodigy, raised, and home-schooled, by his unmarried mother. His mother won't tell him who his father is, telling him that it's better that he not know. He takes matters into his own hands.