

Nightingale Floor, together with the voice of the protagonist, leapt into Japan in 1993 (my first trip, when I was reeling from all the differentĮxperiences and impressions). What inspired you to write Tales of the Otori? His style merged Japanese and Western styles, but he was also an ultra-nationalist who committed ritual suicide at Tokyo’s Police Headquarters.) ( Interviewer’s Note: Yukio Mishima was a three-time Nobel Prize nominee for literature, as well as a model and actor. The Tale of Genji, Tales of the Heike, and Tale of the Sogaīrothers are works that I return to over and again. Morris’ book led me to the novels of Yukio Mishima. Of us have more knowledge of failure than of winning, and failure is more Ivan Morris’ The Nobility of Failure, which struck a chord with me. Original texts and modern Japanese writers. She was a hugeĪbout Japan I’ve always tried to balance reading Western writers on Japan with

Just before I started thinking about writing novels myself, Iįound the novels of Diana Wynne Jones in my local library. The Once and Future King was a favourite when I was a I also read and reread myths and legends, Greek, Influences were writers who combined fantasy with real worlds, E Nesbitt, Off, I am going to ask the most unoriginal question: Who are your literary And today, we are lucky enough to have an interview with the author!

She has two more books in the series coming out soon: Orphan Warriors and Sibling Assassins. Urn:oclc:861642878 Scandate 20100614194647 Scanner Friday of last week, we reviewed Lian Hearn’s Tales of the Otori series, which begins with Across the Nightingale Floor. OL5786084W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 85.06 Pages 312 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0753168359 Urn:lcp:acrossnightingal01hear:epub:f40d23a9-f440-4508-b1f7-3a4d3da3f2b8 Extramarc The Indiana University Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier acrossnightingal01hear Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6d22mr5b Isbn 1573222259ĩ781573222259 Lccn 2002022339 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:36:58 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA119902 Camera Canon 5D City New York DonorĪlibris Edition Uncorrected proof.
