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. Across the Nightingale Floor is purportedly by Lian Hearn. When Takeo's village is pillaged, he is rescued and adopted by the mysterious Lord Otori Shigeru. Across The Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn Hodder, 346pp, 29.95 This Australian author of 'many award-winning childrens novels' (in fact, Gillian Rubinstein) has now - with much fanfare - produced a romance of feudal Japan. 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. 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. A land of incomparable beauty torn by civil war. An international best seller, Across the Nightingale Floor is the first book in the Tales of the Otori series by Lian Hearn. The first book in a stunning trilogy of historical/fantasy novels following Takeo, orphaned when a Warlord massacres his village.
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