About the Author

Lian Hearn is the pseudonym for the writer Gillian Rubinstein, currently living in Australia, who has a lifelong interest in Japan, has lived there, and speaks Japanese. All five books in the Tales of the Otori series—Across the Nightingale Floor, Grass for His Pillow, Brilliance of the Moon, The Harsh Cry of the Heron, and Heaven's Net is Wide—are available now from Riverhead Books. Don't miss the related series, The Tale of Shikanoko.

Reviews

?Nobody should need to ask who the Otori are by now. Scions of an imaginary, quasi-Japanese feudal clan, they?ve made a big splash.?
?"Washington Post"


aNobody should need to ask who the Otori are by now. Scions of an imaginary, quasi-Japanese feudal clan, theyave made a big splash.a
a"Washington Post"

?Nobody should need to ask who the Otori are by now. Scions of an imaginary, quasi-Japanese feudal clan, they?ve made a big splash.?
?"Washington Post"


aNobody should need to ask who the Otori are by now. Scions of an imaginary, quasi-Japanese feudal clan, theyave made a big splash.a
a"Washington Post"