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Of Nightingales That Weep Author(s) Katherine Paterson Illustrator Haru Wells Country United States Language English Genre(s) Children's Historical novel Publisher Crowell Publication date 1974 Media type Print (Hardcover) Pages 170 pp (hardcover edition) ISBN ISBN 978-0-690-00485-4 (hardback edition) OCLC Number 902835 LC Classification PZ7.P273 Of Of Nightingales That Weep is a 1974 work of children's literature written by U.S. novelist Katherine Paterson. Set in medieval Japan, the novel tells the story of Takiko, the 11-year-old daughter of a slain samurai warrior. Takiko’s mother remarries Goro, a gentle but unattractive potter/dwarf, whom Takiko fears. When she matures into adulthood, Takiko is able to find employment in the court of the Japanese emperor and falls in love with an enemy spy-Hideo. Eventually, she returns home and is able to reconcile her feelings towards Goro.[1]
Twenty years after its publication, Of Nightingales That Weep received the Phoenix Award, an annual honor presented by the Children's Literature Association to books that, two decades earlier, did not receive any literary honors when they were first published.[2]
References
Novels by Katherine Paterson The Sign of the Chrysanthemum (1973) • Of Nightingales That Weep (1974) • The Master Puppeteer (1975) • Bridge to Terabithia (1977) • The Great Gilly Hopkins (1978) • Jacob Have I Loved (1980) • Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom (1983) • Come Sing, Jimmy Jo (1985) • Park's Quest (1988) • Lyddie (1991) • Flip-Flop Girl (1994) • Jip, His Story (1996) • Parzival: The Quest of the Grail Knight (1998) • Preacher’s Boy (1999) • The Same Stuff as Stars (2002) • Bread and Roses, Too (2006) • The Day of the Pelican (2009)Categories:- 1974 novels
- American children's novels
- American young adult novels
- Children's historical novels
- Novels set in Japan
- Children's novel stubs
- Historical novel stubs
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