Across the nightingale floor /
Lian Hearn.
- 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed.
- 305 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
- Tales of the Otori ; bk. 1 .
- Hearn, Lian. Tales of the Otori ; bk. 1. .
Library Journal New York Times Wilson's Senior High School
In ancient Japan, Takeo, a sixteen-year-old saved from a massacre by the mysterious Lord Otori, struggles to reconcile his dual nature--the one given him by the Hidden, the pacifist people among whom he was born and raised, and the one inherited from his father, a celebrated assassin.