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Across the Nightingale Floor Lian Hearn

Across the Nightingale Floor By Lian Hearn

Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn


Summary

The international bestseller - a journey of revenge and treachery, honour and loyalty, beauty and passion, which does for medieval Japan what Game of Thrones does for medieval Europe.

Across the Nightingale Floor Summary

Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn

Set in a mythical, feudal, Japanese land, a world both beautiful and cruel, the intense love story of two young people takes place against a background of warring clans, secret alliances, high honour and lightning swordplay.

Lian Hearn's stunningly powerful bestseller, Across the Nightingale Floor, is an epic story for readers young and old.

In his palace at Inuyama, Lord Iida Sadamu, warlord of the Tohan clan, surveys his famous nightingale floor. Its surface sings at the tread of every human foot, and no assassin can cross it. But sixteen-year-old Otori Takeo, his family murdered by Iida's warriors, has the magical skills of the Tribe - preternatural hearing, invisibility, a second self - that enable him to enter the lair of the Tohan. He has love in his heart and death at his fingertips . . .

The first novel in the epic Tales of the Otori series, Across the Nightingale Floor is followed by Grass For His Pillow and Brilliance of the Moon.

'Quite simply the best story of magic, love, sex, revenge and suspense to have come this way since Philip Pullman.' - Independent on Sunday

Across the Nightingale Floor Reviews

Across the Nightingale Floor remains quite simply the best story of magic, love, sex, revenge and suspense to have come this way since Philip Pullman. * Independent on Sunday *
Across the Nightingale Floor was described to me by the young man in Borders bookshop as a Japanese Harry Potter, only better. In fact, it's a different beast entirely. Much darker, much sharper, much less predictable. * Daily Telegraph *

About Lian Hearn

Lian Hearn studied modern languages at Oxford University and worked as a film critic and arts editor in London before settling in Australia. A lifelong interest in Japan led to the study of the Japanese language, many trips to Japan, and culminated in the writing of the Tales of the Otori series.

Hearn is also the author of a two-volume prequel series to the Tales of the Otori, The Tale of Shikanoko, consisting of Emperor of the Eight Islands and Lord of the Darkwood.

Additional information

GOR008421134
9781509837809
1509837809
Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Pan Macmillan
20170112
304
Short-listed for The CILIP Carnegie Medal 2002 (UK)
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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