A Long Way Home (Hardcover)

from IsolaBlue

A quick and absorbing read, A LONG WAY HOME tells the true story of a five-year-old Indian boy who gets lost while visiting another town with his older brother. Sleeping in a train station, he awakes and sees a train. With his brother missing, the little boy assumes that if he gets on the train, ...

from nancynova

ARC from Putnam; a 5 yo boy, from a small, poverty stricken town in Western India, follow his brother to the trains, clambers aboard one to find his brother....and it leaves the station...and travels all the way across India to Calcutta. Illiterate, not speaking the local dialect, he thankfully h...

from tinkerbellkk

This is such an incredible story - having already seen the movie, I of course knew what the outcome would be. However reading it in the author's own words was pretty special. While the writing was simple, it was heartfelt. Imagining a young boy being lost in the huge city of Calcutta and surviv...

from thornton37814

Saroo Brierley managed to get lost from his home in India by jumping aboard a train at the age of five. He traveled all the way to Calcutta with no identification, landing in an orphanage in that city. A couple from Australia adopted him. This is the story of his life and of his search for his fa...

from Canadian_Down_Under

About a year ago I heard a news story of a child who had become lost in his homeland of India and was adopted by an Australian couple. Years later he found his home in India, largely using the Internet. This book tells Saroo's story. He describes his life in India and his terrifying journey when ...