Having finally succumbed and read the book i was not let down by the superb storytelling on offer.
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It was a damp humid afternoon in september.
The world is familiar and yet at the same time distant the characters are beautifully rendered with palpable emotion and the tale is intriguing.
Across the nightingale floor is set in a fictional world based on japan during the sengoku period and follows the story of a sixteen year old boy named tomasu and fifteen year old girl named kaede.
Tomasu a member of the hidden by birth returns from exploring the mountains to find members of his family slaughtered.
I started writing across the nightingale floor with the four main characters in my head and the opening sentence in takeo s voice.
I was in akiyoshidai international arts village in yamaguchi prefecture.
Across the nightingale floor by lian hearn had been sitting on my to read shelf for a little over a year.
When vianne s husband antoine is conscripted to fight for france against the attacking germans vianne and their daughter sophie try to continue normal life in carriveau without him imagining that he will return soon.
Set in an imaginary ancient japanese society dominated by warring clans across the nightingale floor is a story of a boy who is suddenly plucked from his life in a remote and peaceful village to find himself a pawn in.
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The nightingale covers five primary periods in the lives of vianne rossignol mauriac and isabelle rossignol.
Across the nightingale floor is such a work a magical creation of a world beyond time.
Every now and then a novel appears completely unlike anything that has appeared before.
The light was pale and opalescent.
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