![]() Saroo's return journey will leave you weeping with joy and the strength of the human spirit' Manly Daily (Australia) 'We urge you to step behind the headlines and have a read of this absorbing account.With clear recollections and good old-fashioned storytelling, Saroo. ![]() 'Amazing stuff' The New York Post 'So incredible that sometimes it reads like a work of fiction' Winnipeg Free Press (Canada) 'A remarkable story' Sydney Morning Herald Review 'I literally could not put this book down. Then it became the New York Times bestseller and 1 international bestseller A Long Way Home. Lion is a triumphant true story of survival against all odds and a shining example of the extraordinary feats we can achieve when hope endures. And how, at thirty years old, with some dogged determination, a heap of good luck and the power of Google Earth, he found his way back home. How he then ended up in Tasmania, living the life of an upper-middle-class Aussie. How he ended up on the streets of Calcutta. This is the story of what happened to Saroo in those twenty-five years. until the day he boarded a train alone and got lost. When Saroo is five, he mistakenly boards a train and finds himself transported to the bustling and dangerous city of Calcutta. Five-year-old Saroo lived in a poor village in India, in a one-room hut with his mother and three siblings. Though his family lives in extreme poverty and Saroo is often hungry, he learns to thrive: he develops street smarts and steals often. Twenty-five years later, I crossed the world to find my way back home. ![]() As a five-year old in India, I got lost on a train. Unable to read or write or recall the name of his hometown or even his own last name. 'The miraculous and triumphant story of a young man who rediscovers not only his childhood life and home.but an identity long-since left behind'-. At only five years old, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train in India. Lion is the heartbreaking and inspiring original true story of the lost little boy who found his way home twenty-five years later and is now a major film starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara. 273 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 22 cm. A Long Way Home: A Memoir by Brierley Saroo and a great selection of related books. ![]()
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