Across the Nightingale Floor: Lian Hearn - Brossura

Hearn, Lian

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ISBN 10: 1509837809 ISBN 13: 9781509837809

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

Riassunto

Lian Hearn's stunningly powerful bestseller, Across the Nightingale Floor, is an epic story for readers young and old. 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. In his palace at Inuyama, Lord Iida Sadamu, warlord of the Tohan clan, surveys his famous nightingale floor. Its surface sings at the tread of every human foot, and no assassin can cross it. But sixteen-year-old Otori Takeo, his family murdered by Iida's warriors, has the magical skills of the Tribe - preternatural hearing, invisibility, a second self - that enable him to enter the lair of the Tohan. He has love in his heart and death at his fingertips . . . 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.

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Recensione:

Across the Nightingale Floor remains quite simply the best story of magic, love, sex, revenge and suspense to have come this way since Philip Pullman. (Independent on Sunday)

Across the Nightingale Floor was described to me by the young man in Borders bookshop as a "Japanese Harry Potter, only better". In fact, it's a different beast entirely. Much darker, much sharper, much less predictable. (Daily Telegraph)

Descrizione del libro:

The international bestseller – a journey of revenge and treachery, honour and loyalty, beauty and passion, which does for medieval Japan what Game of Thrones does for medieval Europe.

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• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1509837809
• ISBN 13: 9781509837809
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 304