Lian Hearn

FOREWORD''T^hese events took place in the months following the X marriage of Otori Takeo and Shirakawa Kaede at the temple at Terayama. This marriage strengthened Kaede's resolve to inherit the domain of Maruyama and gave Takeo the resources he needed to carry out his work of revenge for his...

Oney mother used to threaten to tear me into eightpieces if I knocked over the water bucket, orpretended not to hear her calling me to come home as the dusk thickened and the cicadas' shrilling increased. I would hear her voice, rough and fierce, echoing through the lonely valley. 'Where's that...

ForewordThese events took place in the year following the death of Otori Shigeru in the Tohan stronghold of Inuyama. The leader of the Tohan clan, lida Sadamu, was killed in revenge by Shigeru's adopted son, Otori Takeo, or so it was widely beUeved, and the Tohan overthrown by Arai Daiichi, one of...

V o R W O R T Was in diesem Buch erzählt wird, ereignete sich im Jahr nach dem Tod von Otori Shigeru in Inuyama, der Festung der Tohan. Shigerus Adoptivsohn Otori Talceo tötete nach w^eit verbreiteter Ansicht aus Rache den Anführer der Tohan, lida Sadamu, und Arai Daiichi vom Clan der...

CHAPTER ONE My mother used to threaten to tear me into eight pieces if I knocked over the M^ater bucket, or pretended not to hear her calHng me to come home as the dusk thickened and the cicadas' shrilling increased. I would hear her voice, rough and fierce, echoing through the lonely valley....