I was writing in a notebook with a black gel pen I’d bought in Himeji. Water trickled from the pools around the artists’ residence, carp splashed and occasionally a kingfisher swooped above the pool. I was in Akiyoshidai International Arts Village in Yamaguchi Prefecture it was a damp, humid afternoon in September. I started writing Across the Nightingale Floor with the four main characters in my head and the opening sentence in Takeo’s voice.

The Storyteller and his Three Daughters.

As yet the film has not been developed beyond the scripting stage. Since then the Tales of the Otori have been world wide best sellers appealing to millions of readers in over 36 countries.įilm rights were sold before the first book was published to Universal Studios for Kennedy/Marshall, and David Henry Hwang was assigned as script writer. It's over ten years since the publication of the first book Across the Nightingale Floor (2002). Wine, knife, sword.’ Wine for the marriage ceremony, knife to cut our throats, sword for revenge. Inventory No: 19110366.Wine, Knife, Sword ~ A Tale from the Eight IslandsĪ FREE Otori story by Lian Hearn, available only on this website:

Category: Children & Young Adult 1001 Children's Books You Must Read ISBN: 0733615627. He has yet to discover his ture idenity- and the secrets that give him the power to destroy the deadly ambitions of Iida. But there lives one exceptional boy, in a remote mountain village high in the vast and ascient lands of the Three Countries. Constructed with exquisite skill, it sings at the tread of each human foot. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: In his black- walled fortress at Inuyama, the murderous warlord, Iida Sadamu, surveys his famous nightingale floor. Pages are lightly tanned and lightly creased. Dust jacket is protected in clear, plastic sleeve. More specifically: Ex-library with usual marks, stamps, stickers.

*** CONDITION: The book itself is in good (ex-library) condition and comes in good dust jacket.

*** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Hodder, Australia, 2002.

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