The corrupt commanding officer, General Zhang, sees to it that everything of value passes under his eye, enabling him to skim the cream for his own gain. The army of the People's Republic of China is completing its brutal takeover of Tibet, destroying temple after temple, looting the land's treasures, subjugating people. Hugh Conway has become High Lama of the fantastic monastery dominating the Valley of the Blue Moon in Hilton's novel. (No wonder Morrow is planning to reissue it, on the same date as Eleanor Cooney and Daniel Altieri's new "Shangri-La," in a facsimile of its original cover.) Or did you see the movie of the same name, directed by Frank Capra and starring Jane Wyatt and Ronald Colman? Neither? Both? Your answers should make your reactions to this novel, which takes up where Hilton's first great success leaves off, predictable up to a point. $25ĭid you read James Hilton's "Lost Horizon"? Published in 1933, it still sells 15,000 copies a year in its paperback edition. SHANGRI-LA The Return to the World of "Lost Horizon" By Eleanor Cooney and Daniel Altieri Morrow.
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