by Shan Sa
Les Quatre Vies du Saule (novel)
Le Vent Vif et le Glaive Rapide (poems)
The Girl Who Played Go (novel)
Le Miroir du Calligraphe (poems and paintings)
Empress (novel)
Les Conspirateurs (novel)
Credits
Jacket photograph © Macduff Everton/Corbis
Jacket design by Archie Ferguson
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
ALEXANDER AND ALESTRIA. Copyright © 2008 by Shan Sa. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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