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A Long Way Home is a poignant and inspirational true story of survival and triumph against incredible odds, celebrating the importance of never letting go of what drives the human spirit: hope. A Long Way Home is a moving, poignant, and inspirational true story of survival and triumph against incredible odds. One feels pulled alongthe book gaining momentum and meaning page by page (Cheryl Strayed, The New York Times Book Review). Amazingly, twenty-five years later, with some dogged determination and a heap of luck-and the advent of Google Earth-he did. Vibrant and elegantMcCarthy’s prose shines with intelligence and intimacy. But despite growing up in a loving upper-middle class Aussie family, Saroo still clung to the last memories of his hometown and family in India, and always wondered if he’d ever find them again. Soon after, he was adopted by a couple in Tasmania. Uneducated, illiterate, and unable to recall the name of his hometown, he managed to survive for weeks on that city’s rough streets.

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Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Born in a poor village in India, Saroo lived hand-to-mouth in a one room hut with his mother and three siblings…until at age five, he mistakenly boarded a train by himself, and ended up in Calcutta, all the way across the country. Buy Lion: A Long Way Home 01 by Brierley, Saroo (ISBN: 9780122167850) from Amazons Book Store.

Twenty-five years later, from Australia, he found his way back. As a little boy in India, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train.

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