“The people in the station weren’t people at all but a great solid mass I couldn’t make any impact on, like a river or sky.” He was invisible, simply another child devoured by the city. He says he had been trained, as most poor Indian children were, to stay away from authority figures, for they had always led to trouble.
Shock overwhelmed him as he sat in the bustling train station of Calcutta, his mind numb. He was barefoot, with no money, and he was desperately hungry and thirsty after long, panicked hours on the train. The threads that connected his two worlds were gossamer-thin, the faintest of clues embedded in the unyielding memories of his childhood. There is a real feeling of catharsis when reading Brierley’s astounding narrative, in the classic sense of a happy ending, for the journey of the author as a boy - and then again as a young man - evokes the audacity of a fable, but it is set in the real world, a place where wonderment and miraculous occurrences can often seem wanting.īrierley’s story spans three decades, from his earliest years in India as a young boy, where he lived in poverty, but with a wealth of love from his mother and his three siblings, to his life of comfort and affluence in Australia with his adoptive parents and brother.
#A long way home a memoir by saroo brierley movie#
Luckily for readers - and moviegoers - there is such a tale: Saroo Brierley’s memoir “A Long way Home: A Boy’s Incredible Journey from India to Australia and Back Again,” which served as the basis for the highly acclaimed 2016 movie “Lion,” starring Dev Patel. Every once in awhile, a story comes along that seems too remarkable to be true, the sort of miraculous sequence of events that would once have been ready fodder for Oprah Winfrey in her talk show days, or, as it turned out in reality, for a joyful movie, one seemingly larger than life.
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