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Howard Eaton’s novel THE MYSTIC, is a compelling story of a Canadian
boy, a high school dropout, named Dante who embarks on an odyssey from
his home on an island off the west coast of Canada and travels to Japan
and China in search of wisdom—secular and spiritual. Dante is
unsettled. The young man wonders about truth and his calling. Along the
path of his journey he meets a merchant, a Zen abbot, a hermit, an
unscrupulous tycoon, a Taoist nun, a warrior, and a man called the
Mystic.
In his search, Dante experiences opportunity, danger,
crisis, death, poverty, wealth, and love. He travels to countries with
beliefs and rules and rituals very different from those in which he
grew up.
Dante’s journey takes the reader into the mysteries
of Asian religion and philosophy. Everything he thought he knew is
questioned and his story is the unfolding of the transforming power of
dreams, determination, and truth.
HOWARD EATON has lived or worked in Japan, South
Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, and China. He learned to speak Mandarin
Chinese. He is a published author and ghostwriter. Howard lives with
his wife in Santa Barbara, California.
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