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Across the Nightingale Floor
Lian Hearn
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Description for Across the Nightingale Floor
Paperback. Series: Tales of the Otori. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FM; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 21. Weight in Grams: 220.
Lian Hearn's stunningly powerful bestseller, Across the Nightingale Floor, is an epic story for readers young and old. 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. 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 ... Read more
Lian Hearn's stunningly powerful bestseller, Across the Nightingale Floor, is an epic story for readers young and old. 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. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Picador
Condition
New
Series
Tales of the Otori
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781509837809
SKU
9781509837809
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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 ... Read more
Reviews for Across the Nightingale Floor
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
Across the Nightingale Floor remains quite simply the best story of magic, love, sex, revenge and suspense to ... Read more
Daily Telegraph
Across the Nightingale Floor remains quite simply the best story of magic, love, sex, revenge and suspense to ... Read more