The book was published in multiple languages including english consists of 305 pages and is available in paperback format.
Across the nightingale floor age range.
These floors were used in the hallways of some temples and palaces the most famous example being nijō castle in kyoto japan dry boards naturally creak under pressure but these floors were built in a way that the flooring nails rub against a jacket or clamp.
I loved my inner picture of how takeo was view spoiler dancing elegantly over the nightingale floor hide spoiler.
Nightingale floors 鴬張り or 鶯張り uguisubari listen help info are floors that make a chirping sound when walked upon.
Across the nightingale floor begins as sixteen year old tomasu who was brn into a persecuted religious sect called the hidden returns from walking in the mountains to find that his family has been slaughtered.
The first edition of the novel was published in january 1st 2002 and was written by lian hearn.
Tomasu a member of the hidden by birth returns from exploring the mountains to find members of his family slaughtered.
Across the nightingale floor is set in a fictional world based on japan during the sengoku period and follows the story of a sixteen year old boy named tomasu and fifteen year old girl named kaede.
Hardly a sentence was changed in any of its editions.
Across the nightingale floor won the 2004 deutscher jugendliterturpreis award for outstanding children s literature in germany.
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Across the nightingale floor by lian hearn 9781565117105 available at book depository with free delivery worldwide.
The magic of enhanced senses was beautiful and very appropriate to the setting.
An international bestseller across the nightingale floor is the first book in the tales of the otori series by lian hearn don t miss the related series the tale of shikanoko.
About across the nightingale floor.
In his black walled fortress at inuyama the warlord iida sadamu surveys his famous nightingale floor.
The main characters of this fantasy fiction story are otori takeo lord iida.
In his black walled fortress at inuyama the warlord iida sadamu surveys his famous nightingale floor.
In the second half of this period across the nightingale floor which i finished in september 2001 was going through the editorial process.
The first book in a stunning trilogy of historical fantasy novels following takeo orphaned when a warlord massacres his village.
