by James Hilton · Yunnan Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9787222047600
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«Lost Horizon» is the adventure novel by James Hilton, published by Yunnan Publishing Group in paperback (182 pages, in Chinese).
A group of travellers, after a plane crash, is taken to a remote valley in Tibet where Shangri-La stands, a Buddhist monastery that seems to live outside time. There, a community has achieved astonishing longevity and maintains an ideal of harmony and peace; the story explores happiness, immortality and the possibility of a utopia.
The novel was originally published in 1933 and won the Hawthornden Prize in 1934; this Chinese edition from Yunnan Publishing Group is from 1991.
A proposal for readers of adventure classics, travel literature and utopian tales.
James Hilton was a British-American novelist and screenwriter. He is best remembered for his novels Lost Horizon; Goodbye, Mr. Chips and Random Harvest; and co-writing screenplays for the films Camille (1936) and Mrs. Miniver (1942), the latter earning him an Academy Award.
