Description
| Product ID: | 9781509837809 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Tales of the Otori |
| Title: | Across the Nightingale Floor |
| Authors: | Author: Lian Hearn |
| Page Count: | 304 |
| Subjects: | Fantasy, Fantasy, Historical fiction, Historical fiction |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The international bestseller – a journey of revenge and treachery, honour and loyalty, beauty and passion, which does for medieval Japan what Game of Thrones does for medieval Europe. <p><b>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.</b><br><br><b>Lian Hearn's stunningly powerful bestseller, <i>Across the Nightingale Floor</i>, is an epic story for readers young and old. </b><br><br>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 . . .<br><br><b>The first novel in the epic Tales of the Otori series, <i>Across the Nightingale Floor </i>is followed by <i>Grass For His Pillow </i>and <i>Brilliance of the Moon.</i><br><br>'Quite simply the best story of magic, love, sex, revenge and suspense to have come this way since Philip Pullman.' – <i>Independent on Sunday</i></b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-01-12 |
