A long way home : a memoir
2016
Book
At only five years old, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train in India. Unable to read or write or recall the name of his hometown or even his own last name, he survived alone for weeks on the rough streets of Calcutta before ultimately being transferred to an agency and adopted by a couple in Australia. Always wondered about his origins, and with the advent of Google Earth, he had the opportunity to look for the needle in a haystack he once called home. After years of searching, he miraculously found what he was looking for and set off to find his family.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9781405930994
- 9780735233690
- 9780670068203
- 0735233691
Description: 273 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Other Title:
- Lion : [as a five-year-old in India, I got lost on a train. Twenty-five years later, from Australia, I found my way back. This is what happened in between]
- Lion : a long way home
- Long way home : Lion
- Lion
Notes:
- Adapted into a 2016 motion picture titled Lion.
- Subtitle is from cover.
- First published as "A long way home". Later published as "Lion".
- Publisher, pagination and printing dates may vary.
- "As a five-year-old in India, I got lost on a train. Twenty-five years later, from Australia, I found my way back. This is what happened in between." -- From cover.
Contents:
- Prologue
- Remembering
- Getting lost
- Survival
- Salvation
- A new life
- My mum's journey
- Growing up
- Resuming the search
- Finding home
- Meeting my mother
- Reconnection
- Reaching out
- Returning
- Epilogue
- Map: My journey across India.
Control Number: 2551870
Publisher: New York : New American Library, 2016.Subjects:
- Adopted children -- Australia -- Tasmania -- Biography.
- Adoptees -- Australia -- Biography.
- Adoptees -- Australia -- Identification.
- Birthparents -- India -- Identification.
- Brierley, Saroo -- Family.
- Brierley, Saroo -- Travel -- India.
- Brierley, Saroo.
- East Indians -- Australia -- Biography.
- Hobart (Tas.) -- Biography.
- Intercountry adoption -- Australia -- Tasmania.
- Intercountry adoption -- India.
- Kolkata (India) -- Biography.
- Missing children -- India -- Biography.
Genre:
Other Authors: Buttrose, Larry, 1952- contributor.