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"Five battles to fight. Four to win, one to lose."

This is an auction for the THE TALES OF THE OTORI TRILOGY by Lian Hearn. That is:

Across the Nightingale Floor (2002)
Grass for His Pillow (2003), and
Brilliance of the Moon (2004)

in a single hardback volume.

From Wikipedia:

"Tales of the Otori is a series of historical fantasy novels by Gillian Rubinstein, writing under the Pen name Lian Hearn, set in a fictional world based on feudal Japan. The series initially consisted of a trilogy. The books follow a young warrior named Takeo in his struggles to avenge a biological father, escape the legacy of his adoptive father, and pursue the love of his life in the midst of an enormous power struggle involving dozens of clan lords and thousands of warriors. The story is told primarily in first-person narrative by Otori Takeo. He was born as Tomasu in Mino, a small village that houses amongst its people, religious outcasts referred to as the "Hidden". The Hidden are persecuted throughout the Three Countries for their beliefs, and in the opening chapter Mino is destroyed by the warriors of Iida Sadamu, Lord of the Tohan Clan. Takeo is rescued by Otori Shigeru, a young Lord of the Otori Clan which has a long standing rivalry with the Tohan, and led back to the Otori stronghold of Hagi. There, Shigeru adopts Takeo and begins to instruct him in the ways of a warrior. Shigeru's uncles, hoping to rid themselves of their popular and powerful nephew, send him to Iida's capital city of Inuyama, ostensibly to be married to a young princess from a different clan named Kaede..."