Across The Nightingale Floor Blurb

Tomasu a member of the hidden by birth returns from exploring the mountains to find members of his family slaughtered.

Across the nightingale floor blurb.

September 12 2003 blurb amazon. Across the nightingale floor is set in a fictional world based on japan during the sengoku period and follows the story of a sixteen year old boy named tomasu and fifteen year old girl named kaede. Across the nightingale floor by lian hearn 336pp macmillan 12 99. A tour de force novel set in ancient japan filled with passion fantasy and feuding warlords.

The magic of enhanced senses was beautiful and very appropriate to the setting. Our own medieval feudal system was a relatively simple affair. A society of rigid castes and codes subverted by love. The first volume in the highly anticipated tales of the otori trilogy.

An ancient tradition undermined by spies and assassins. Across the nightingale floor blurb. The first book in a stunning trilogy of historical fantasy novels following takeo orphaned when a warlord massacres his village. A land of incomparable beauty torn by civil war.

In his black walled fortress at inuyama the warlord iida sadamu surveys his famous nightingale floor. Each stratum of society owed allegiance to the one above it. Across the nightingale floor by lian hearn publisher.