Sheru was the youngest of the three boys.
His mother was a Hindu, struggling to raise three boys and a girl. His father was a Muslim, and had left the family to marry a second wife. Sheru was a five-year-old boy helping his family live by their wits in a small town in north central India.
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I now look forward to seeing the movie based upon this book. The book includes a number of photos that the reader will enjoy.
The how and why if it all will keep the reader turning the pages. It is amazing and against all odds that he would finally get some answers to his many questions. It is not til twenty five years transpire that he would finally get his answers. Still, he has memories of his Indian family and wonders what ever happened to them. He has a relatively happy and loving home life with his adoptive family. He is put up of for adoption and adopted by a well to do Australian couple from Tasmania. When he is unable to articulate the actual name of his village or the name of the station where he boarded the train, it is essentially game over. He miraculously manages to survive for about 6 weeks on his own, til he is finally taken into custody. When he wakes up, he finds himself far away from home in the dangerous and teeming city of Calcutta. While out with his oldest brother and waiting for him at a local train station, he boards a train and falls asleep. In a very poor, remote, rural village in mid 1980s India, a small five year uneducated and illiterate old boy lives with mother, his two older brothers, and younger sister. It is a story that will tug at the heartstrings of its readers. This story is a harrowing but ultimately uplifting one. Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier.
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Then he set off on a journey to find his mother.Ī Long Way Home is a moving and inspirational true story that celebrates the importance of never letting go of what drives the human spirit - hope.We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. And one day, after years of searching, he miraculously found what he was looking for. When he was a young man the advent of Google Earth led him to pore over satellite images of the country for landmarks he recognised. He spent hours staring at the map of India on his bedroom wall. Not knowing the name of his family or where he was from, he survived for weeks on the streets of Kolkata, before being taken into an orphanage and adopted by a couple in Australia.ĭespite being happy in his new family, Saroo always wondered about his origins. Saroo had become lost on a train in India at the age of five. When Saroo Brierley used Google Earth to find his long-lost home town half a world away, he made global headlines. A true story of survival and triumph against incredible odds, now a major motion picture.
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