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Across the Nightingale Floor - Tales of the Otori Series #1
by Lian Hearn
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good (ex-library)/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0733615627
- ISBN 13
- 9780733615627
- Seller
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Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Hodder, Australia, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Good (ex-library)/Good. Hardcover. 343 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Hodder, Australia, 2002. First Edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in good (ex-library) condition and comes in good dust jacket. More specifically: Ex-library with usual marks, stamps, stickers. Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Dust jacket has light creasing. Edges of dust jacket have light bumping. Dust jacket is unclipped. Dust jacket is protected in clear, plastic sleeve. Edges of pages are lightly browned. Pages are lightly tanned and lightly creased. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: In his black- walled fortress at Inuyama, the murderous 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. But there lives one exceptional boy, in a remote mountain village high in the vast and ascient lands of the Three Countries. He has yet to discover his ture idenity--- and the secrets that give him the power to destroy the deadly ambitions of Iida. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children & Young Adult; 1001 Children's Books You Must Read; ISBN: 0733615627. ISBN/EAN: 9780733615627. Inventory No: 19110366.. 9780733615627
Synopsis
Across the Nightingale Floor is the first of Lian Hearn's popular Tales of the Otori trilogy, first published in 2002. The main events cover a period of just over a year, from Tomasu's rescue by Shigeru, his adoption as Otori Takeo, their travel to Inuyama, their betrayal, and Takeo's submission to the Tribe's claim on him. Tomasu, a 16 year old boy lives amongst the Hidden, a persecuted religious sect.
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- Seller
- Manyhills Books
(AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 19110366
- Title
- Across the Nightingale Floor - Tales of the Otori Series #1
- Author
- Lian Hearn
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good (ex-library)
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0733615627
- ISBN 13
- 9780733615627
- Publisher
- Hodder
- Place of Publication
- Australia
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Children & Young Adult; Across the Nightingale Floor - Tales of the Otori Series #1
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children & Young Adult; 1001 Children's Books You Must Read;
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Traralgon, Victoria
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