Across the Nightingale Floor (Otori Trilogy #1)

Lian Hearn

Takeo's world is turned upside down when his peaceful family and community are brutally murdered by a power-hungry warlord. Takeo escapes and is saved by Lord Shigeru of the Otori clan who, struck by Takeo's likeness to his own dead child, adopts him. But Takeo discovers there is more to his own family ...