num_pages: 304
description: Seventeen-year-old Tomasu lives in a remote mountain village, some of whose residents - including his mother - are members of the Hidden, a clandestine, peaceful religious sect. He has never met his father. One day, while Tomasu is out collecting mushrooms, a band of Tohan warriors descends upon and massacres the village. Tomasu confronts the warriors, but is rescued by the mysterious Lord Otori, who changes the boy's name to Takeo, and wants to adopt him. As Takeo learns to read, and to fight with sword and pole, on and off horseback, he does not realize that he is the center of a bloody intrigue ...until it is almost too late. ' Quite simply the best story of magic, love, sex, revenge and suspense to have come this way since Philip Pullman' - Amanda Craig, Independent on Sunday
language: English
title: Across The Nightingale Floor
titlecomplete: Across The Nightingale Floor
characters: Lord Iida, Otori Takeo
genres: Adventure, Historical, Fantasy, Japan, Asia, Young Adult, Historical Fantasy, Romance, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 41017
series: Tales of the Otori
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Wirral Paperback of the Year, name: Peter Pan Award, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
category: Preis der Jugendjury, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Lincoln Award, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Carnegie Medal, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: La Nuit du Livre
category: Littérature
publisher: Firebird