Saroo's return journey will leave you weeping with joy and the strength of the human spirit' Manly Daily (Australia) 'I literally could not put this book down. 'A remarkable story' Sydney Morning Herald Review 'So incredible that sometimes it reads like a work of fiction' Winnipeg Free Press (Canada) Lion is a triumphant true story of survival against all odds and a shining example of the extraordinary feats we can achieve when hope endures. And how, at thirty years old, with some dogged determination, a heap of good luck and the power of Google Earth, he found his way back home. How he then ended up in Tasmania, living the life of an upper-middle-class Aussie. How he ended up on the streets of Calcutta. This is the story of what happened to Saroo in those twenty-five years. until the day he boarded a train alone and got lost. Five-year-old Saroo lived in a poor village in India, in a one-room hut with his mother and three siblings.
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Twenty-five years later, I crossed the world to find my way back home. Lion is the heartbreaking and inspiring original true story of the lost little boy who found his way home twenty-five years later and is now a major film starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara.Īs a five-year old in India, I got lost on a train.