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Title details for A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley - Available

A Long Way Home

A Memoir

by Saroo Brierley
Vidish Athavale
Audiobook
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Now an Academy Award-nominated major motion picture starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara, this New York Times bestseller and #1 international best-seller tells 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.

“Amazing stuff.” –The New York Post

“So incredible that sometimes it reads like a work of fiction.” –Winnipeg Free Press (Canada)

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.
Despite his gratitude, Brierley always wondered about his origins. Eventually, with the advent of Google Earth, he had the opportunity to look for the needle in a haystack he once called home, and pore over satellite images for landmarks he might recognize or mathematical equations that might further narrow down the labyrinthine map of India. One day, after years of searching, he miraculously found what he was looking for and set off to find his family.
 
A Long Way Home is a moving, poignant, and inspirational true story of survival and triumph against incredible odds. It celebrates the importance of never letting go of what drives the human spirit: hope.

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  • Release date

    November 14, 2023

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780593861998
      • File size: 205686 KB
      • Duration: 07:08:30

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      May 31, 2024

      Narrator Vidish Athavale offers an engaging presentation of Brierley's 2014 internationally released debut, upon which the 2016 movie Lion was based. When he was just five years old, Brierley boarded the wrong train in India and became lost. He survived for weeks living on the streets of Kolkata, where he eventually was taken in by a foster agency and adopted by a white Australian family. Though he had a happy childhood in Tasmania, he never forgot his birth family or his desire to see them again. Incredibly, he used Google Earth to painstakingly find his way home again many years later. Athavale brings the harrowing journey to life with palpable urgency, blooming into joy as he describes his reunification with his family. While Brierley's story is compelling, the writing style is somewhat flat and repetitive; the audiobook, however, offers a more fluid and immersive listening experience. VERDICT An uplifting story of resilience and one young man's determined search for the family he lost long ago. Recommended for listeners who enjoyed Nicole Chung's All You Can Ever Know or Jenny Heijun Wills's Older Sister, Not Necessarily Related.--Laura Stein

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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