First published 2017
Saroo is five years old when he loses sight of his older brother at a train station in India. He climbs aboard the wrong train and travels for what feels like forever, finally arriving in Calcutta, the world's most chaotic and impoverished city. The young boy has never attended school and barely knows his own neighborhood's name, let alone how to find his way home. An Australian family adopts him, giving him a new life far from India. Twenty-five years pass before Saroo decides to search for his birth mother and siblings. He remembers fragments: a bridge, the river where he played as a child, a dam. Armed with only these memories, Saroo spends countless hours studying every railway line in India through Google Earth. His patience and determination finally pay off when he spots a familiar location. But only one method will confirm whether this place truly matches his childhood home and whether any of his family still lives there. He must travel to India and see for himself.
Genres: family, autobiography, biography-memoir, adoption
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, search-for-origins
Setting: Australia, Calcutta, India
Period: 21st-century
240 pages · Paperback · Ediciones Península