ARGONAUT BOOKS

Ludo's mother is obsessed with Kurosawa's famous film and it forms the backdrop to his childhood. His search for his real father ends in disappointment but he does find out more about his mother's shaky past than he needs. Reviews Her style is brilliantly heartless, and cork-dry; original herself, she is a witty examiner of human and cultural eccentricity. She is, above all, playful… What grounds all DeWitt's brilliance and game-playing is the way that she dramatizes a certain kind of hyperintelligent rationalism and probes its irregular distribution of blindness and ...Read More