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| Original Title: | A Long Way Home |
| ISBN: | 1405912936 (ISBN13: 9781405912938) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Nominee for Biography (2014) |
Saroo Brierley
Paperback | Pages: 272 pages Rating: 4.12 | 48595 Users | 4251 Reviews
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| Title | : | A Long Way Home |
| Author | : | Saroo Brierley |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 272 pages |
| Published | : | September 11th 2014 by Penguin (first published June 24th 2013) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Cultural. India |
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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.As a five-year old in India, I got lost on a train. Twenty-five years later, I crossed the world to find my way back home.
Five-year-old Saroo lived in a poor village in India, in a one-room hut with his mother and three siblings... until the day he boarded a train alone and got lost. For twenty-five years.
This is the story of what happened to Saroo in those twenty-five years. How he ended up on the streets of Calcutta. And survived. How he then ended up in Tasmania, living the life of an upper-middle-class Aussie. 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.
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.
'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. 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...recalls the fear of being lost and the anguish of separation' Weekly Review (Australia)
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Ratings: 4.12 From 48595 Users | 4251 ReviewsEvaluation About Books A Long Way Home
Good Lord. FEELINGS. This book is effectively two separate stories:1. How Saroo got lost and ended up being adopted by an Australian family.2. Saroo's search for his home 20 years later.The first story is horrifying when you think about all the ways that his story could have ended differently. The second is nothing short of astonishing. Not only that he managed to find a needle in a haystack on Google Earth, but that his mother had made the decision to stay in the same neighbourhood for 20+A Long Way Home describes an early childhood in India which is beyond imagination for most Americans. The poverty of poor people in India is incredible and horrendous. But some escape it.Saroo Brierley was adopted from an Indian orphanage by a Tasmania couple eager for children. From the age of five or six (he does not know the day of his birth), Saroo was cared for and loved by the Brierleys, and given needed medical care (internal parasites and a tapeworm). After a normal Western world
3.5 Stars.I found out about this book when I watched the trailer for the 2016 movie "Lion". The trailer had me in tears and then when I saw it was based on this true story, I knew I had to read this. First of all, it is an incredible and heartbreaking story. I can't even fathom how Saroo, a 5 year old Indian boy survived for weeks on the streets by himself. So many awful things could have happened to him but he was extremely lucky that no major harm came to him and he was even luckier to get
Totally a feel-good story. I find it flipping amazing that 5-year old Saroo somehow managed to avoid any number of horrible situations while homeless and alone in Kolkata. To be adopted by a family in Australia truly was fortuitous.
This is an extraordinary story, told by the person who lived it. Part of me is still in the story and I only hope that it doesnt hinder me from expressing how truly wonderful this book is.First: The Writing. Maybe an odd place to start, but when we read a book, thats the first introduction to the story we get. The words. The writing. Lion is written with great humbleness, with gratitude, with simplicity and utter straightforwardness. In that way it captured me completely and continued through to
I really liked the first quarter of the book when he recollected his experiences as a boy in India. I love memoirs and this was right up my alley. The rest of the book was about his doubts and feelings of depression and his confusion and blah blah blah. It drove me crazy. He grew up in a beautiful, good family in Australia and the story of his adoption as a 5 yr. old was fascinating. But reading about his obsessive search for his family for over 100 pages was awful--he did all of his searching
When Saroo Brierley was born, he was born into poverty in a small town in India. Of course he wasnt Saroo Brierley then, and when he became lost he was only five, and could only remember his name was Saroo. His early childhood was happy in his memory. He and his siblings were always hungry, but that was a fact of life. They spent their days begging for food, eating scraps from the ground and doing the best they could. They were the typical impoverished children with big tummys bloated from gas,
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