![]() A young woman in red robes comes out of the better-maintained flat next door, holding a baby in her arms. This time I’m thirty, I’ve got money in my pocket and a ticket to the place I now call home, but I feel just like I did on that railway platform all those years ago-it’s hard to breathe, my mind is racing, and I wish I could change the past. Not for the first time in my life, I’m lost and I don’t know what to do. This was my worst fear, so paralyzing that I suppressed it almost completely-that once I finally found my home, after years of searching, my family wouldn’t be in it. Through the window, as well as some gaps in the familiar crumbling brick wall, I can see into the tiny room my family shared, the ceiling only a little higher than my head. The door, its hinges broken, is so much smaller than I remember it as a child-now I would have to bend over to fit through it. The last time I stood on this ground, I was five years old. And now here I am, standing at a door near the corner of a run-down building in a poor district of a small, dusty town in central India-the place I grew up-and no one lives here. Growing up half a world away, with a new name and a new family, wondering whether I would ever see my mother and brothers and sister again. I’ve been thinking about this day for twenty-five years. In that spirit, we are proud to offer this book to our readers however, the story, the experiences, and the words are the author’s alone. Penguin is committed to publishing works of quality and integrity. ![]() Intercountry adoption-Australia-Tasmania. Adopted children-Australia-Tasmania-Biography. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataĪ long way home : a memoir / Saroo Brierley with Larry Buttrose.ġ. You are supporting writers and allowing Penguin to continue to publish books for every reader.Īll images used courtesy of Saroo Brierley, © 2014 Saroo Brierley, unless otherwise noted in the text. ![]() Thank you for buying an authorized edition of this book and for complying with copyright laws by not reproducing, scanning, or distributing any part of it in any form without permission. Copyright fuels creativity, encourages diverse voices, promotes free speech, and creates a vibrant culture. First published in the United States by G. ![]()
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