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Across the Nightingale Floor

Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori Book One

Unabridged
Edition:
by Lian Hearn
Narrated by
Edited by Kevin Gray
Publisher: Highbridge Company
Subject(s): Fiction, Fiction - Fantasy - Historical/Sagas
Series: Tales of the Otori (Audio)
Pub Date: Jul 2002
Street Date: Jul 18, 2002
EAN: 9781598873122
Average patron rating: 2 stars
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Library copies: 2
Lending period: 7 to 21 days
File size: 103.6 MB
Duration: 8 hours, 25 minutes

Summary

A tour-de-force novel set in ancient Japan filled with passion, fantasy, and feuding warlords. The first volume in the highly anticipated "Tales of the Otori" trilogy.Sixteen-year-old Takeo's village has been massacred by an evil warlord, and he is about to be slain by the men who murdered his parents and neighbors. At the last moment, his life is saved by a nobleman, who claims the boy as his kin and begins his education.But nothing is as it seems. Takeo discovers that he has rare powers that are useful to those around him. As he grows into manhood, he must decide where his loyalties lie: with his noble master and adoptive father; with the Hidden, a secret, spiritual sect whose beliefs are forbidden; or with the Tribe, the assassins and spies who consider him one of their own.A story of treachery, political intrigue, and the intensity of first love, set in a world ruled by formal ritual and codes of honor, Across the Nightingale Floor crosses genres, generations, and genders to ca

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