'Quite simply the best story of magic, love, sex, revenge and suspense to have come this way since Philip Pullman. 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. He has love in his heart and death at his fingertips. 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. Its surface sings at the tread of every human foot, and no assassin can cross it. In his palace at Inuyama, Lord Iida Sadamu, warlord of the Tohan clan, surveys his famous nightingale floor. Lian Hearn's stunningly powerful bestseller, Across the Nightingale Floor, is an epic story for readers young and old. And, with this knowledge, he embarks on a journey that will lead him across the famed nightingale floor - and to his own unimaginable destiny.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. Under the tutelage of Shigeru, he learns that he too possesses the skills of the Tribe. Constructed with exquisite skill, it sings at the tread of each. In his black-walled fortress at Inuyama, the warlord Iida Sadamu surveys his famous nightingale floor. Don't miss the related series, The Tale of Shikanoko.

When Takeo's village is pillaged, he is rescued and adopted by the mysterious Lord Otori Shigeru. An international bestseller, Across the Nightingale Floor is the first book in the Tales of the Otori series by Lian Hearn. But unbeknownst to him, his father was a celebrated assassin and a member of the Tribe, an ancient network of families with extraordinary, preternatural skills. Constructed with exquisite skill, it sings at the tread of each human foot. The youth Takeo has been brought up in a remote mountain village among the Hidden, a reclusive and spiritual people who have taught him only the ways of peace. An international best seller, Across the Nightingale Floor is the first book in the Tales of the Otori series by Lian Hearn.

An international best seller, Across the Nightingale Floor is the first book in the Tales of the Otori series by Lian Hearn.

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