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SHAN
ERIC VAN LUSTBADER
Copyright (c) 1986 by Eric Van Lustbader
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.
Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material: Doubleday and Company, Inc.: "Kudakutemo" by Chosu, from An Introduction to Haiku by Harold G. Henderson. Copyright (c) 1958 by Harold G. Henderson. Reprinted by permission of Doubleday and Company, Inc.
Random House, Inc.: Excerpts from The Wisdom of Laotse, by Laotse, translated and edited by Lin Yutang. Copyright (c) 1948 by Random House, Inc. Copyright renewed 1976 by Lin Yutang. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.
Shan is a work of fiction. All characters, save those of a recognizable historical nature,
are products solely of the author's imagination.
Any similarity with any person, living or dead, is coincidental.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lustbader, Eric Van. Shan.
I. Title.
PS3J62.10752845 1987 813'.54 86-10027 ISBN 0-349-55640-2
Manufactured in the United States of America
98765432
First Edition
CARTOGRAPHY BY ANITA KARL AND JAMES KEMP CALLIGRAPHY BY CARMA HINTON BOOK DESIGN BY JO ANNE METSCH


This is for my father
with love and respect.

Special thanks to Kate Bush
for running up that hill.


Kudakutemo
kudakutemo
ari mizu-no tsuki

Though it be broken-
broken again-still it's there:
the moon on the water.
-Choshu

Fame or one's own self,
which does one love more?
Loss of self or the possession of goods
which is the greater evil?
-Laotse



AUTHOR'S NOTE

In the Buddhist religion, the Sanskrit word kalpa is used in several ways. It is an almost incalculable period of time. It is also the word used to measure the period between the creation and the recreation of the world. Each great kalpa is divided into four parts. So, too, is Shan.