Across the Nightingale Floor [electronic resource]
Hearn, Lian2008
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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
Main title:
Across the Nightingale Floor [electronic resource] / Lian Hearn
Author:
Hearn, Lian, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Pan Macmillan, 2008
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Series:
Tales of the Otori
Audience:
Reading grade level: 4-5
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
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 Tales of the Otori series.
Awards:
Best Fiction for Young Adults (Young Adult Library Services Association)
ISBN:
9780330477192
Language:
English
BRN:
2786392
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