Lian hearn tales of the otori6/28/2023 He also encounters Hisao, an angry young man, who is revealed as a ‘ghost master’. At the monastery he begins to experience strange visions and events over which he seems to have no control. But despite this he is also the grandson of Muto Shizuka and owes allegiance to the Tribe. Sunaomi chafes against the dull routine of the monastery, though his teachers are kind, having been raised to be a warrior. The boys have only escaped death themselves as their aunt Kaede has interceded with the tyrant Lord Saga and promised that the boys will enter the monastery at Terayama as novice monks, never to leave it. The central character of this first in the new series is Sunaomi who along with his younger brother Chikara are the surviving children of Arai Zenko who, with his wife, was condemned as a traitor. The long and bitter feuds between the Tribe and the clans have created much devastation and one significant outcome is the many children left orphans either as the result of their parents’ deaths in battles or as ‘honour’ demands. It’s been quite some time since I first read the Tales of the Otori series but Hearn’s skill as a storyteller has certainly not diminished – witness the fact that I read this over four nights because it is so utterly compelling, just as the original saga was.
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