This edition features new material from Saroo about his childhood, including a new foreword and a Q&A about his experiences and the process of making the film. And one day, after years of searching, he miraculously found what he was looking for and set off on a journey to find his mother. When he was a young man, the advent of Google Earth led him to pore over satellite images of India for landmarks he recognized. Despite being happy in his new family, Saroo always wondered about his origins. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family. A five-year-old Indian boy is adopted by an Australian couple after getting lost hundreds of kilometers from home. 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. With Sunny Pawar, Abhishek Bharate, Priyanka Bose, Khushi Solanki. Lion was the book of choice for May with the book-club I am involved with, so I thought I would share my thoughts with. Published by Penguin in November 2016, it has since been made into a big screen movie starring Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman. The film tells the story of a 30-year-old man who was adopted at the age of five in India and now lives in Australia, who travels back to India in an attempt to discover his true identity and reconnect with his long-lost family. Lion: A Long Way Home is the true-life account of one boy Saroo Brierley and his extraordinary journey. Saroo had become lost on a train in India at the age of five. Lion is a 2016 film based on Saroo Brierley s autobiographical novel, A Long Way Home. When Saroo Brierley used Google Earth to find his long-lost hometown half a world away, he made global headlines. The young listeners' edition of the true story that inspired Lion, the major motion picture starring Dev Patel, David Wenham, Rooney Mara, and Nicole Kidman.
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