I have posted the excerpt of 'tales of the otori' to the featured articles section: http://www.samurai-archives.com/tot.html
and got the 'advance copy' of the book a few days ago. The writing style is a bit odd, it almost seems like a book that was translated literally from Japanese, if that makes any sense - here's an example: "My mother used to threaten to tear me into eight pieces if I knocked over the water bucket, or pretended not to hear her calling me to come home as the dusk thickened and the cicadas' shrilling increased." I haven't read it yet, just flipped through it, so can't make too much judgement for or against it. Take a look on the above link.
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