Every now and then a novel appears, completely unlike anything that has appeared before. Across the Nightingale Floor is such a work-a magical creation of a world beyond time.

Set in an imaginary, ancient Japanese society dominated by warring clans, Across the Nightingale Floor is a stor[...]

Set in a mythical, feudal Japanese land, a world both beautiful and cruel, this intense love story of two young people takes place against a background of warring clans, famine and treacherous alliances.[...]

'Their realm is held in balance by their union ...Break that union and the Three Countries will fall apart.' Otori Takeo and Kaede have ruled the Three Countries peacefully for over sixteen years, following the events laid out in the epic Tales of the Otori. They have three daughters: Shigeko, fifte[...]

Japan, 1857. For centuries Japan has been on its own; isolated by choice from the rest of the world. But the Western powers are now at its shores demanding to be let in, the government is crumbling and revolution is building. The age of the samurai is ending and in its place a new Japan will be born[...]

The adventure continues ...The eagerly awaited third novel in the trilogy, following Across the Nightingale Floor and Grass For His Pillow, which cast a spell over thousands of readers worldwide.[...]

In his black-walled fortress at Inuyama, the warlord Iida Sadamu surveys his famous nightingale floor. Constructed with exquisite skill, it sings at the tread of each human foot. No assassin can cross it unheard. The youth Takeo has been brought up in a remote mountain village among the Hidden, a re[...]

A third installment of the series that began with Across the Nightingale Floor and Grass for His Pillow is set in an alternate medieval Japan and continues the adventures of Takeo and Kaede as they find their destinies shaped by factors outside of their control. Reprint.[...]

The new beginning and the grand finale of Lian Hearn's celebrated Tales of the Otori is "rivetingly elegant" ("Washington Post").
"Heaven's Net Is Wide" is the prequel that reveals the full story of Lord Otori Shigeru--the figure who has presided in both life and death over the entire series, th[...]

Herr Otori Takeo og hans hustru Kaede har styrt i over seksten år. De tre riker nyter fred, vekst og velstand. Himmelen synes å smile til dem. Men deres fremganger har vakt oppmerksomhet langt borte i øst, hos keiseren og hans general, krigsherren Saga Hideki, som er lysten på landets rikdommer.[...]

Takeo, arving til den store Otori-klanen, har nå lovet sitt liv til den hemmelige Stammen. Dermed må han fornekte trosløftene han ga til De Skjulte som han vokste opp hos, sin rettmessige arv til store rikdommer, land og makt, og han må fornekte sin kjærlighet til Kaede. Dette er den andre roma[...]

4. bog i serien om Otoriklanens fortællinger.

Den gamle kones profeti viser sig på at holde stik - også når det gælder Takeos død. Han har hersket over De Tre Riger i femten år, har undgået krige helt, og der hersker velstand og tilfredshed i hans riger. Han har f[...]