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  • A Long Way Home
  • By: Saroo Brierley
  • Narrated by: Vikas Adam
  • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (665 ratings)

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Lion

By: Saroo Brierley
Narrated by: Vikas Adam
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Publisher's Summary

A moving and inspirational true story of survival and triumph against incredible odds. It celebrates the importance of never letting go of what drives the human spirit: hope.

When Saroo Brierley used Google Earth to find his long-lost hometown half a world away, he made global headlines.

Saroo had become lost on a train in India at the age of five. 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.

Despite being happy in his new family, Saroo always wondered about his origins. He spent hours staring at the map of India on his bedroom wall. 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. And one day, after years of searching, he miraculously found what he was looking for. Then he set off on a journey to find his mother.

©2013 Saroo Brierley (P)2016 Blackstone Audio

Critic Reviews

"A remarkable story.... [Brierley] provides an informative and fascinating insight into how Third World families live with, and somehow survive, their poverty." ( Saturday Age)

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Great narration, annoying accent.

A great book and i felt the story through the narrators emotive voice, but his fake aussie accent really annoyed me! At some points it kind of sounded abit irish and british which threw me off. 23 million people living in australia, around half are men and you couldnt pick one to do the narration?

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Amazing story, terrible accent

Unfortunately for the amazing story of his journey, I just can't get over what is trying to be an Australian accent. Surely there would have been an Australian actor who could have read this?

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Fascinating True Story

Fantastic and fascinating true story. Narration in an annoying half Australian accent. Recommended and an essential companion to the film

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an amazing true story

I loved this book. An inspiring story well told. Good narrator but definitely not an Australian to an Aussie ear and it would have improved the audio experience if a dinkey di Aussi actor was used.

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Amazing story but couldn’t get past the narrator

This is such an amazing story and I was so excited to hear it. However, as soon as I heard the narrator’s fake Australian accent I knew that I wouldn’t be able to finish it. Such a shame. Ended up reading the book and watching the movie instead.

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Wonderful

Wonderful reading & great narration. Enjoyed this very much. Recently saw the film Lion & remember watching the 60 Minutes documentary on Saroo which always stayed with me & I found very moving.

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Awful accent ruins an already average book

The narrator was obviously chosen for his Hindi pronunciation skills (needed for a few words in the book) instead of for his ability to do an Australian accent (the entire book). There are plenty of men in Australia capable of doing both. Why they settled for this painful attempt at an Aussie accent is beyond me.

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interesting

This book drags on a bit, and is mot particularly well written. The childlike language used to describe his childhood is appropriate but continues to describe his adult years which is a bit awkward.

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Could not get past the first 10 minutes

I have been looking forward to getting to Lion in my library. What a disappointment to find that I cannot stand the terrible narration! Sounds like someone trying to master the Aussie accent in a b grade voice class. Terrible choice for a narrator, wish I could comment on the story but it's still a mystery!!

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Interesting story, diabolical narration.

Not since “A deengo gort moy baebee” has there been a more reprehensible failure to present the Australian accent, with apologies to Meryl Streep. Part Cockney, part American, it was only the storyline that kept me listening to a narrator who should NEVER attempt an Australian accent again. An attempt that makes Dick Van Dyke look like a linguistic genius.

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