Across the Nightingale Floor, Episode 1
Subtitle: The Sword of the Warrior (Tales of the Otori, Book 1)
Publisher: Puffin
Published: May 5, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780142403242
First sentence: My mother used to threaten to tear me into eight pieces if I knocked over the water bucket, or pretended not to hear her calling me to come home as the dusk thickened and the cicadas' shrilling increased.