Across the Nightingale Floor
  • Published:
    Sep-2002 (Hardcover)
    Jun-2003 (Paperback)
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  • Main Genre:
    Fantasy
  • Time Period:
    Medieval (1000-1400)
  • Pages:
    305
  • Age Level:
    18 & up
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An international bestseller, Across the Nightingale Floor is the first book in the Tales of the Otori series by Lian Hearn. Don't miss the related series, The Tale of Shikanoko.

In his black-walled fortress at Inuyama, the warlord Iida Sadamu surveys his famous nightingale floor. Constructed with exquisite skill, it sings at the tread of each human foot. No assassin can cross it unheard.

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. 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. When Takeo's village is pillaged, he is rescued and adopted by the mysterious Lord Otori Shigeru. Under the tutelage of Shigeru, he learns that he too possesses the skills of the Tribe. And, with this knowledge, he embarks on a journey that will lead him across the famed nightingale floor -- and to his own unimaginable destiny...
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    •  
    • Jun-2003
    • Riverhead
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1573223328
    • ISBN13: 9781573223324
    •  
    • May-2005
    • Firebird
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0142403245
    • ISBN13: 9780142403242
    •  
    • May-2005
    • Firebird
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0142404330
    • ISBN13: 9780142404331
    •  
    • Jan-2017
    • Pan Books (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 1509837809
    • ISBN13: 9781509837809
    • First Edition
    • Sep-2002
    • Riverhead
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1573222259
    • ISBN13: 9781573222259
    •  
    • Jun-2003
    • Turtleback Books
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1417616830
    • ISBN13: 9781417616831
    • Library Binding
    •  
    • Jun-2003
    • Picador
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0330477196
    • ISBN13: 9780330477192
    •  
    • Jun-2003
    • Hachette Australia
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0733625266
    • ISBN13: 9780733625268
    •  
    • Jun-2003
    • Penguin
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1101215623
    • ISBN13: 9781101215623
    •  
    • Aug-2002
    • Highbridge Audio
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 1565117107
    • ISBN13: 9781565117105
    •  
    • Sep-2002
    • Highbridge Audio
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1565117115
    • ISBN13: 9781565117112
    •  
    • Sep-2003
    • HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
    • Audible
    •  
    • Feb-2007
    • Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.
    • Audible
    •  
    • Mar-2010
    • Highbridge Audio
    • Playaway
    • ISBN: 161637683X
    • ISBN13: 9781616376833
    •  
    • Feb-2017
    • Macmillan Digital Audio
    • Audible



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