It is this sort of aesthetic that bestselling pseudonymous author Lian Hearn seeks to capture Across the Nightingale Floor, the first in her Tales of the Otori trilogy. They are like wells: despite having a small, hemmed in surface of finite dimensions, their depths are unknown, dark, requiring close examination, speculation on behalf of the reader. These stories comprise mere moments: a meeting of gazes, a gesture, a brief downfall of rain, the arranging of flowers, the steeping of tea.
Japanese author and Nobel Laureate Yasunari Kawabata is famous for his ' palm of the hand' stories, stories so small and taciturn that they could fit in the grasp of one's curled fingers. Across the Nightingale Floor appears in our list of young adult novels with Asian protagonists
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