2)įorecast: With movie rights sold to Universal Studios and foreign rights sold in 11 countries, this one seems a sure bet for genre bestseller lists.
Hopefully, the next book will show what Hearn is really capable of. Takeo learns the craft of the Tribe offstage and all the political maneuvering that goes into the clan warfare is rather murky. However, for those looking for something with a bit of depth, the author tends to gloss over the details of why and how. For fans of Japanese samurai warrior fantasy, this novel is right in the ballpark, filled with swords, clan in-fighting, love affairs, invisibility and magical Ninja powers. Takeo enjoys a few blissful moments with the fetching Lady Kaede Shirakawa but, unfortunately, she is not destined to be his, now or in the future. Takeo learns how to control his burgeoning talents just in time to avenge the death of his mentor, while politics and clan rivalries lead to an increasing amount of graphic bloodshed. Takeo, who joins the Otori clan, is a religious outcast, and also, surprisingly, a member of "the Tribe," a secretive race that has unusual mental and physical powers that lend them an unworldly air. From the entrance of the 16-year-old hero, Takeo, as he is about to be swatted down by a mounted horseman and the way he can become invisible or make a duplicate of himself when he needs to, to the head-rolling decapitations that follow interminably, the impossible becomes the semiplausible. And, with this knowledge, he embarks on a journey that will lead him across the famed nightingale floor-and to his own unimaginable destiny.Mystical powers and martial arts rampage through this pseudo-Japanese story, the first of a projected trilogy by newcomer Hearn, with an abandon that's head spinning. The books are categorized in the Fantasy-genre, and are recommended to young teens as well as mature readers. It is the first volume in the Tales of the Otori trilogy, which later turned into five books. Under the tutelage of Shigeru, he learns that he too possesses the skills of the Tribe. Across the Nightingale Floor by Australian author Gillian Rubinstein, who uses the pseudonym Lian Hearn, was published in 2002. When Takeo's village is pillaged, he is rescued and adopted by the mysterious Lord Otori Shigeru.
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. Don't miss the related series, The Tale of Shikanoko. BlurbAn international bestseller, Across the Nightingale Floor is the first book in the Tales of the Otori series by Lian Hearn.
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