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"My mother used to threaten to tear me into eight pieces if I knocked over the water bucket, or pretended not to hear her calling me to come home as the dusk thickened and the cicadas' shrilling increased."

Lian Hearn the First Line of Across the Nightingale Floor

Originally Published Aug. 1, 2002

Paperback edition:

287 pages - June 3, 2003