Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori Book 1 Audiobook (Free)

Lian Hearn’s stunningly effective bestseller, Over the Nightingale Ground, is an epic story for readers young and old. Set in a mythical, feudal, Japanese property, a world both beautiful and cruel, the extreme love tale of two young people occurs against a background of warring clans, key alliances, high honour and lightning swordplay.

In his palace at Inuyama, Lord Iida Sadamu, warlord from the Tohan clan, surveys his famous nightingale floor. Its surface sings in the tread of every human foot, no assassin can combination it. But sixteen-year-old Otori Takeo, his family murdered by Iida’s warriors, gets the magical skills from the Tribe – preternatural hearing, invisibility, another self – that enable him to get into the lair of the Tohan. He provides like in his center and loss of life at his fingertips .

The first novel in the epic Tales from the Otori series, Across the Nightingale Flooring is followed by Grass For His Pillow and Brilliance of the Moon.