Tales of the Otori
9 books in seriesAcross the Nightingale Floor Summary
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Book 1
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Across the Nightingale Floor
- The Bestselling Historical Fantasy Classic
- By: Lian Hearn
- Narrated by: Aiko Nakasone, Kevin Gray
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall391
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Performance352
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Story352
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. Lian Hearn's stunningly powerful bestseller, Across the Nightingale...
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Amazing story
- By Anonymous on 28-07-23
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Across the Nightingale Floor
- The Bestselling Historical Fantasy Classic
- Narrated by: Aiko Nakasone, Kevin Gray
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 06-02-17
- Language: English
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Across the Nightingale Floor
- Tales of the Otori, Book 1
- By: Lian Hearn
- Narrated by: Tamblyn Lord, Anna Steen
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall61
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Performance55
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Story55
An international best seller, Across the Nightingale Floor is the first book in the Tales of the Otori series by Lian Hearn. 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 reclusive and spiritual people who have taught him only the ways of peace.
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Ruined by intrusive, loud music
- By Gorga on 30-07-16
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Across the Nightingale Floor
- Tales of the Otori, Book 1
- Narrated by: Tamblyn Lord, Anna Steen
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 29-06-15
- Language: English
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Book 2
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Grass for his Pillow
- Tales of the Otori, Book 2
- By: Lian Hearn
- Narrated by: Tamblyn Lord, Anna Steen
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance27
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Story28
Praised for its epic scope and descriptive detail, Across the Nightingale Floor, the first book in the Tales of the Otori series, was an international best seller and critical success. With Grass for His Pillow, we return to the medieval Japan of Lian Hearn's creation - a land of harsh beauty and deceptive appearances. In a complex social hierarchy, amid dissembling clans and fractured allegiances, there is no place for passionate young love.
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Surprising!
- By Ross H on 27-04-18
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Grass for his Pillow
- Tales of the Otori, Book 2
- Narrated by: Tamblyn Lord, Anna Steen
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 29-06-15
- Language: English
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Grass for His Pillow
- Tales of the Otori, Book 2
- By: Lian Hearn
- Narrated by: Aiko Nakasone, Kevin Gray
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall177
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Performance162
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Story161
Grass for His Pillow is the second novel in Lian Hearn's astonishingly beautiful series inspired by feudal Japan, Tales of the Otori. In the ancient Oriental lands of the Otori, amidst a time of violent war, famine and treacherous alliances, the fate of the young lovers Otori Takeo and Shirakawa Kaede hangs in the balance.... Takeo, heir to the great Otori clan, has pledged his life to the secret Tribe. His supernatural skills of virtual invisibility and acute hearing make him their most deadly assassin.
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dope
- By Jay on 19-12-18
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Grass for His Pillow
- Tales of the Otori, Book 2
- Narrated by: Aiko Nakasone, Kevin Gray
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 26-01-17
- Language: English
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Book 3
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Brilliance of the Moon
- Tales of the Otori, Book 3
- By: Lian Hearn
- Narrated by: Tamblyn Lord, Anna Steen
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance22
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Story22
A beautiful, haunting evocation of the medieval Japan of Lian Hearn's imagination, this thrilling follow-up to Grass for His Pillow and Across the Nightingale Floor delves deeper into the complex loyalties that bind its characters from birth.... In the third volume of the phenomenal series that began with the best-selling Across the Nightingale Floor and then Grass For His Pillow, the teenage lovers, Takeo and Kaede, are now married.
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Great story
- By Ross H on 22-06-18
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Brilliance of the Moon
- Tales of the Otori, Book 3
- Narrated by: Tamblyn Lord, Anna Steen
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 29-06-15
- Language: English
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Brilliance of the Moon
- Tales of the Otori, Book 3
- By: Lian Hearn
- Narrated by: Aiko Nakasone, Kevin Gray
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall136
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Performance120
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Story120
The third title in the compelling Tales of the Otori - the story that began with Across the Nightingale Floor and Grass for his Pillow, Brilliance of the Moon by Lian Hearn is an epic tale of love, power and destiny, set in a mythical world inspired by feudal Japan. Takeo and the exquisite Kaede, still only teenagers, are now married, but the implacable forces of destiny that rule their lives tear them apart.
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Lian Hearn is a great mistress of Story telling
- By Rachel Aspogard on 19-01-25
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Brilliance of the Moon
- Tales of the Otori, Book 3
- Narrated by: Aiko Nakasone, Kevin Gray
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 06-02-17
- Language: English
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Book 4
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The Harsh Cry of the Heron
- Tales of the Otori, Book 4
- By: Lian Hearn
- Narrated by: Henri Lubatti, Julia Fletcher
- Length: 19 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall65
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Performance59
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Story59
Otori Takeo and Kaede have ruled the Three Countries peacefully for over 16 years, following the events laid out in the epic Tales of the Otori. They have three daughters: Shigeko, 15 years old and heir to the Otori, and Maya and Miki, 13-year-old twins who have inherited the supernatural skills of their father. Kaede knows nothing of the prophecy that Takeo will die at the hands of his son and longs to give him a male child. Nor does she know of the boy he fathered 16 years ago.
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Voicing my opinion
- By Michael on 25-09-17
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The Harsh Cry of the Heron
- Tales of the Otori, Book 4
- Narrated by: Henri Lubatti, Julia Fletcher
- Length: 19 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 06-04-17
- Language: English
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The Harsh Cry of the Heron
- Tales of the Otori, Book 4
- By: Lian Hearn
- Narrated by: Paul English
- Length: 20 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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The Harsh Cry of the Heron is the dazzling continuation of the Tales of the Otori, an unforgettable epic with a vast emotional landscape, a classic work that crosses genres, genders and generations.‘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 16 years, following the events laid out in the epic Tales of the Otori.
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The Harsh Cry of the Heron
- Tales of the Otori, Book 4
- Narrated by: Paul English
- Length: 20 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 30-07-15
- Language: English
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Book 5
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Heaven's Net Is Wide
- By: Lian Hearn
- Narrated by: J. Paul Boehmer, Julia Fletcher
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall60
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Performance54
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Story54
In a remote mountain village, a boy is born gifted with the supernatural skills of his father, once the deadliest assassin of the Tribe. Set in the years before the beginning of Across the Nightingale Floor, Heaven's Net Is Wide by Lian Hearn is the first and last tale, which both closes the circle and introduces new listeners to the fantastical, beautiful and thrilling world of the Otori. It is an epic story of betrayal, revenge, magic and love.
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Lian Hearn is always quality
- By Ross H on 21-01-20
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Heaven's Net Is Wide
- Narrated by: J. Paul Boehmer, Julia Fletcher
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 06-04-17
- Language: English
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