'Quite simply the best story of magic, love, sex, revenge and suspense to have come this way since Philip Pullman. 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. In his black-walled fortress at Inuyama, the murderous warlord, Iida Sadamu, surveys his famous nightingale floor. He has love in his heart and death at his fingertips. The story of a boy who is suddenly plucked from his life in a remote and peaceful village to find himself a pawn in a political scheme filled with treacherous warlords, rivalry and the intensity of first love. 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. A lifelong interest in Japan led to the study of the Japanese language, many trips to Japan and culminated in the writing of ACROSS THE NIGHTINGALE FLOOR. Its surface sings at the tread of every human foot, and no assassin can cross it. Lian Hearn studied modern languages at Oxford University and worked as an arts editor in London before settling in Australia. In his palace at Inuyama, Lord Iida Sadamu, warlord of the Tohan clan, surveys his famous nightingale floor. Lian Hearn's stunningly powerful bestseller, Across the Nightingale Floor, is an epic story for readers young and old. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo 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.
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