Samurai Fiction

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"Mythical Medieval Japan never seemed so attractive as in this breezy
epic... a rousingly muscular piece of romantic adventure, replete with
shadowy assassins, fluttering battle flags, and doomed love."
--Kirkus Reviews


Greetings from Penguin Putnam,

We at Riverhead Books and Penguin Putnam are proud to announce the
publication of Lian Hearn's Across the Nightingale Floor on August
26th.

This critically acclaimed first book of The Otori Trilogy is a
fantasy novel set in ancient Japan. Lian Hearn is a pseudonym. She
studied at Oxford University and has had a lifelong interest in
Japanese culture and history.

Hearn's exhilarating epic is alive with sorcery, sword fights,
samurai, rival clans and martial arts as well as the passion of first
love. It appeals to a wide variety of readers and has been
enthusiastically received worldwide, with publishing rights sold in 25
foreign markets and film rights optioned to Kathleen Kennedy and Frank
Marshall for Universal.

We invite you to read about this book and to share it with your
readership. We plan to launch a website at www.theotori.com that will
include information about the book and its characters."