Across the Nightingale Floor
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4.9 • 48 Ratings
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
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
Customer Reviews
Top Drawer…
If you like light style semi-samurai tales, this is perfect. It’s the first in the series and as there are 5 now (in the series), I’m inclined to think it will mature very well, indeed. A decent length book I zipped through with great narration and very good storytelling.
Great books
I have read this book before and the whole series. I bought them again as it’s been a while since I read them and I wasn’t disappointed the second time around. Can’t wait to read the 2nd. They keep you gripped and I have forgotten a lot of the book so it was all a surprise again. Fab book and well written.
Across the nightingale floor
Just as bennyboy put, this series is truly wonderful. I may have only read the first two books,but I am also not one for reading, and yet I find myself lost in these books, like a magic spell. The characters are a joy to follow throughout their journey; and the story has brilliant structure. I am looking forward to reading the third part in this series along with the other two.