This article examines the duology of Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, consisting of the novels Nothing Sacred andLast Refuge. The paper aims to present the function of the literary Shambhala in the context of the space-timemodel of the world presented by the books under study. Based on Mircea Eliade’s comparative religion theory,the author puts forward and attempts to prove the hypothesis of a far-reaching similarity between the function ofScarborough’s Shambhala in the narrative universe and the meaning of a sacred place in the archaic, religiousmodel of reality.
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