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.
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. The first novel in the epic Tales of the Otori series, Across the Nightingale Floor is followed by Grass For His Pillow and Brilliance of the Moon.Wine, Knife, Sword ~ A Tale from the Eight IslandsĪ FREE Otori story by Lian Hearn, available only on this website: He has love in his heart and death at his fingertips. Read more warriors, has the magical skills of the Tribe - preternatural hearing, invisibility, a second self - that enable him to enter the lair of the Tohan. But sixteen-year-old Otori Takeo, his family murdered by Iida's. Its surface sings at the tread of every human foot, and no assassin can cross it. In his palace at Inuyama, Lord Iida Sadamu, warlord of the Tohan clan, surveys his famous nightingale floor. Set in a mythical, feudal, Japanese land, a world both beautiful and cruel, the intense love story of two young people takes place against a background of warring clans, secret alliances, high honour and lightning swordplay. Lian Hearn's stunningly powerful bestseller, Across the Nightingale Floor, is an epic story for readers young and old. Description for Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori 1) Paperback.
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