Shangri-La It may be used in this context alongside other mythical and famous examples of somewhat similar metaphors such as El Dorado, The Fountain of Youth, and The Holy Grail. Shangri-La Shangri-La is a fictional place described in the 1933 novel "Lost Horizon" by British author James Hilton. Hilton describes Shangri-La as a mystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery, enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains. Shangri-La has become synonymous with any earthly paradise, particularly a mythical Himalayan utopia – a permanently happy land, isolated from the world. In the novel, the people who live at Shangri-La
Another Day in Paradise (novel) on an ever-tightening spiral to hell, his crimes escalating until they include murder. The plot, which highlights Bobbie's increasing dependence on the highs of violence, emphasizes a frightening reality. On January 27, 2006, in the Moscow-based alternative newspaper "the eXile", essayist John Dolan leveled charges of plagiarism against James Frey, author of "A Million Little Pieces", accusing him of lifting material from "Another Day in Paradise" and another Little work, "Steel Toes". Neither Frey, nor his publisher Random House, have addressed the allegations of plagiarism. Another Day in Paradise (novel) Another Day in Paradise is a novel by Eddie Little