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. This is the first book in a new epic trilogy that has already become a bestselling. When Takeo's village is pillaged, he is rescued and adopted by the mysterious Lord Otori Shigeru. Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori, Book 1) Lian Hearn. 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. In a remote mountain village high in the lands of the Three Countries lives Takeo, a boy with the exceptional skills of the deadly Tribe preternatural hearing, the ability to be in two places at once and invisibility. Don't miss the related series, The Tale of Shikanoko. The trilogy of Across the Nightingale Floor, Grass for His Pillow and Brilliance of the Moon tells you the story of Takeo Otori. 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 captivate fans of all ages.Synopsis: An international bestseller, Across the Nightingale Floor is the first book in the Tales of the Otori series by Lian Hearn. Takeo discovers that he has rare powers that are useful to those around him. 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. 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. A tour-de-force novel set in ancient Japan filled with passion, fantasy, and feuding warlords.
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