Lost Horizon

James Hilton

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In 1931 a plane evacuating four Westerners from a rebellion in India is hijacked and flown deep into the mountains of Tibet. They are taken in at Shangri-La, a lamasery in a sheltered valley where no one seems to grow old, and where it is not clear they will ever be allowed to leave (1933).