A long way home
(Book)
Author
Contributors
Buttrose, Larry, 1952- author.
Published
New York : Berkley Books, 2015.
Format
Book
Edition
Berkley trade paperback edition.
Status
Port Angeles - Nonfiction (Adult)
920.0092 BRIERLE
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Sequim - Nonfiction (Adult)
920.0092 BRIERLE
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Sequim - Nonfiction (Adult) | 920.0092 BRIERLE | Available |
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Adopted children -- Australia -- Tasmania -- Biography.
Autobiographies.
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.
Autobiographies.
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.
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Published
New York : Berkley Books, 2015.
Edition
Berkley trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
273 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Adapted into a 2016 motion picture titled Lion.
Description
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. Uneducated, illiterate, and unable to recall the name of his hometown, he managed to survive for weeks on that city's rough streets. Soon after, he was adopted by a couple in Tasmania. 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. Amazingly, twenty-five years later, with some dogged determination and a heap of luck -- and the advent of Google Earth -- he did.