Unknown to Takeo, his real father was a celebrated assassin and a member of the Tribe, an ancient network of families with extraordinary skills, including night vision, invisibility, creating a second self when fighting, and many methods of assassination. A marriage is arranged with Shigeru, ostensibly to bring the Otori into alliance, but really to mask his murder. However his uncles, the lords of the clan, would prefer to see him dead, and so would his greatest enemy, Iida.įifteen year-old Kaede, a hostage of the Noguchi, allies of the Iida, has acquired the reputation of bringing death to any man who desires her. Defeated ten years before by the Dairyo, many of the Otori still want revenge and look to Shigeru, the rightful heir, to lead them. When his family fall victim to religious persecution at the hands of Lord Iida of the Dairyo clan, he is rescued and adopted by the warrior, Shigeru, of the Otori clan.
Don't miss the related series, The Tale of Shikanoko.A land of incomparable beauty torn by civil war An ancient tradition undermined by spies and assassins A society of rigid castes and codes subverted by love Takeo is raised among the Hidden, whose beliefs forbid them to kill. All five books in the Tales of the Otori series- Across the Nightingale Floor, Grass for His Pillow, Brilliance of the Moon, The Harsh Cry of the Heron, and Heaven's Net is Wide-are available now from Riverhead Books. The tale begins with young Takeo, a member of a subversive and persecuted religious group, who returns home to find his village in flames. The most extraordinary novel.The passion and rapture of this story is so compelling that it's almost worth delaying your holiday for. The Independent on Sunday (UK)Ĭomplex.fast-paced, arousing adventure reminiscent of Arthurian legend that's told with all the urgency of a modern-day thriller. Book MagazineĪcross the Nightingale Floor is as exciting a debut as any in recent yearspart Shogun, part Lord of the Flies and entirely enchanting. Milwaukee Journal SentinelĪbout the Author Lian Hearn is the pseudonym for the writer Gillian Rubinstein, currently living in Australia, who has a lifelong interest in Japan, has lived there, and speaks Japanese. The debut novel of Lian Hearn's Tales of the Otori series, Across the Nightingale Floor, is set in a feudal Japan on the edge of the imagination. The most compelling novel to have been published this year. The Times (London) Satisfyingly rich in incident yet admirably spare in the telling.Hearn has created a world I anticipate returning to with pleasure. The New York Times Book Review And, with this knowledge, he embarks on a journey that will lead him across the famed nightingale floor-and to his own unimaginable destiny. Under the tutelage of Shigeru, he learns that he too possesses the skills of the Tribe. When Takeo's village is pillaged, he is rescued and adopted by the mysterious Lord Otori Shigeru. 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. 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. Constructed with exquisite skill, it sings at the tread of each human foot. 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.
Across the nightingale floor series#
About the Book Set in an engaging, alternate Japan, this first book in a new epic trilogy has already become a bestselling sensation in England and Australia, earning comparisons to "Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." It begins with legend of a nightingale floor in a black-walled fortress-a floor that sings in alarm at the step of an assassin.īook Synopsis An international bestseller, Across the Nightingale Floor is the first book in the Tales of the Otori series by Lian Hearn. Seemingly spurred by his grief, Shigeru takes to aimlessly wandering the remoter lands of the Tohan, which leads to his coincidental rescue of a boy, Tomasu, as.
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