Across the Nightingale Floor
Author:
Lian HearnPublisher:
Penguin Group (USA) IncorporatedImprint:
Riverhead Books (Hardcover)Publication Date:
08-26-2002ISBN:
9781573222259Pages:
288Subjects:
Action & AdventureAvailable as:
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'The most compelling novel to have been published this year' Amanda Craig, Observer
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 16-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 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.
