- Intercountry adoption, Adopted children, East indians, foreign countries, Australia, biography
The young readers' edition of the true story that inspired Lion, the major motion picture starring Dev Patel, David Wenham, Rooney Mara, and Nicole Kidman. When Saroo Brierley used Google Earth to find his long-lost home town half a world away, he made global headlines.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and resolved.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Saroo Brierley, Larry Buttrose
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House, Penguin Young Readers Group, Penguin Books, Limited
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781470863210
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