Where does the film, that was turned into a novel, take place?
Black Book (novel) Black Book (Dutch: Zwartboek ) is a Dutch-language 2006 thriller novel by Laurens Abbink Spaink. It is the novelization of the Dutch film "Black Book" (2006). It tells the story of a young Jewish woman, Rachel Stein, and her struggle for survival during and after the Second World War. The book has a photo section, and an afterword by Paul Verhoeven and Gerard Soeteman.
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, and particularly a mythical Himalayan utopia – a permanently happy land, isolated from the outside world. In the novel "Lost Horizon", the people who live at Shangri-La are almost immortal, living hundreds of years beyond the normal lifespan and only very slowly aging in appearance. The name also evokes the imagery of exoticism of the Orient.