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.
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.
No assassin can cross it unheard.
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.
An international bestseller, Across the Nightingale Floor is the first Book in the Tales of the Otori series by Lian Hearn.
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.
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
