Brilliance of the Moon

Fülszöveg

iitd told no oner'df the. words of the proph^gs^ hut now I wanted to share them with Kaede, I whispered some of them to her: that in me three oods mingled^ I was born into the Hidden but my life was no longer my own^ that I was destined to rule
in peace from sea to sea^ when Earth delivered what Heaven desired. I had repeated these words over and over to myself and as Vve said before^
sometimes I believed them and sometimes I did not.
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I told her that five battles would bring us peace^ four to win and one to lose/but I did not tell her what the saint had predicted about my own son: that I would die at his hands
The third volume of THE TALES OF THE OTORI SERIES
A beautiful, haunting evocation of a time and a place just beyond the reach of an outside world, the third and final instalment of the Tales of the Otori transports us once again to a medieval Japan of Hearn's imagination, a land of formal ritual and codes, harsh beauty and deceptive appearances.
Otori Takeo and... Tovább

Fülszöveg

iitd told no oner'df the. words of the proph^gs^ hut now I wanted to share them with Kaede, I whispered some of them to her: that in me three oods mingled^ I was born into the Hidden but my life was no longer my own^ that I was destined to rule
in peace from sea to sea^ when Earth delivered what Heaven desired. I had repeated these words over and over to myself and as Vve said before^
sometimes I believed them and sometimes I did not.
i
I told her that five battles would bring us peace^ four to win and one to lose/but I did not tell her what the saint had predicted about my own son: that I would die at his hands
The third volume of THE TALES OF THE OTORI SERIES
A beautiful, haunting evocation of a time and a place just beyond the reach of an outside world, the third and final instalment of the Tales of the Otori transports us once again to a medieval Japan of Hearn's imagination, a land of formal ritual and codes, harsh beauty and deceptive appearances.
Otori Takeo and Shirakawa Kaede are now married and more resolved than ever to strengthen their domains. Yet their hasty marriage has enraged Arai Daiichi, the warlord who controls most of the Three Countries, and has insulted the nobleman Lord Fujiwara, who considered Kaede betrothed to him. The third book in the Tales of the Otori, Brilliance of the Moon follows Takeo and Kaede as they attempt to consolidate their powers and fulfil the holy woman's prophecy. Your lands will stretch from sea to sea, hut peace comes at the price of bloodshed. Five battles will buy you peace, four to win and one to lose
A thrilling follow-up to GRASS FOR HIS PILLOW and ACROSS THE NIGHTINGALE FLOOR, BRILIIANCE OF THE MOONtakes us deeper
into the complexities of the loyalties that bind the novel's characters from birth. Filled with adventure and surprising twists of plot and fortune, it also provides a rare glimpse beyond the Three Countries, as outside influences intrude upon this isolated realm. Vissza