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At only five years old, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train in India. Unable to read or write or recall the name of his hometown or even his own last name, he survived alone for weeks on the rough streets of Calcutta before ultimately being transferred to an agency and adopted by a couple in Australia.
Despite his gratitude, Brierley always wondered about his origins. Eventually, with the advent of Google Earth, he had the opportunity to look for the needle in a haystack he once called home and pore over satellite images for landmarks he might recognize or mathematical equations that might further narrow down the labyrinthine map of India. One day, after years of searching, he miraculously found what he was looking for and set off to find his family.
Lion is a moving, poignant, 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.
©2016 Saroo Brierley (P)2014 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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De: Levi Benkert, y otros
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The Red-Haired Woman
- A Novel
- De: Orhan Pamuk
- Narrado por: John Lee, Katharine Lee McEwan
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
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On the outskirts of a town 30 miles from Istanbul, a master well digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain. As they struggle in the summer heat, excavating without luck meter by meter, the two will develop a filial bond neither has known before - not the poor middle-aged bachelor nor the middle-class boy whose father disappeared after being arrested for politically subversive activities. The pair will come to depend on each other and exchange stories reflecting disparate views of the world.
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Drags On
- De T. Conrad en 10-25-17
De: Orhan Pamuk
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Strength in What Remains
- A Journey of Remembrance and Forgetting
- De: Tracy Kidder
- Narrado por: Tracy Kidder
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
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In this new book, Kidder gives us the superb story of a hero for our time. Strength in What Remains is a wonderfully written, inspiring account of one man’s remarkable American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him–a brilliant testament to the power of will and of second chances.
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My Favorite of Kidder's Books
- De Roy en 08-31-09
De: Tracy Kidder
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They Said They Wanted Revolution
- A Memoir of My Parents
- De: Neda Toloui-Semnani
- Narrado por: Neda Toloui-Semnani
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
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In 1979, Neda Toloui-Semnani’s parents left the United States for Iran to join the revolution. But the promise of those early heady days in Tehran was warped by the rise of the Islamic Republic. With the new regime came international isolation, cultural devastation, and profound personal loss for Neda. Her father was arrested and her mother was forced to make a desperate escape, pregnant and with Neda in tow.
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I learned so much. Great pacing, felt like I time-traveled
- De Jess Fuchs en 02-07-22
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Find Me Unafraid
- Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum
- De: Kennedy Odede, Jessica Posner
- Narrado por: Korey Jackson, Mandy Siegfried, P.J. Ochlan (foreword)
- Duración: 11 h y 11 m
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Find Me Unafraid tells the uncommon love story between two uncommon people whose collaboration sparked a successful movement to transform the lives of vulnerable girls and the urban poor. With a foreword by Nicholas Kristof.
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A difficult and rewarding listen
- De R. MCRACKAN en 08-23-18
De: Kennedy Odede, y otros
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Wide-Open World
- How Volunteering Around the Globe Changed One Family's Lives Forever
- De: John Marshall
- Narrado por: John Marshall
- Duración: 12 h y 4 m
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John Marshall had read about the growth of voluntourism, and frankly, it was the only kind of extended trip he could afford. He'd heard that some peoples' lives were changed by a week of overseas service - what might half a year accomplish for his family? His wife, Traca, was all in favor of it; his kids, especially his 14-year-old daughter, were strongly opposed. Wide-Open World is the totally engaging, bluntly honest story of the Marshall family's life-changing adventure.
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I enjoyed every minute
- De Chris en 05-15-15
De: John Marshall
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Dreaming of Jupiter
- De: Ted Simon
- Narrado por: Rupert Degas
- Duración: 16 h y 30 m
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When Ted Simon rode 64,000 miles round the world on his 500c Triumph Tiger, he inspired thousands of motorcyclists to begin their own adventures, including Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman, who chronicled their travels in Long Way Round. Nearly 30 years later, Ted Simon took to the road again to retrace the epic journey he made in his 40s. He meets up with old friends and acquaintances, revisits old landmarks and locations, and rediscovers himself, as well as the world, along the way.
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Amazing book, Amazing Man
- De Roxanna en 08-16-18
De: Ted Simon
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Mother Tongue
- A Saga of Three Generations of Balkan Women
- De: Tania Romanov
- Narrado por: Becky Parker
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
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What is your mother tongue? Sometimes the simplest questions take a book to answer. Such is the case with Tania Romanov's story of exile, emigration, and immigration and how native language can be a powerful touchstone for the sense of home. The unrelenting consequences of 100 years of Balkan wars force three generations of Croatian women to flee their homelands multiple times. Eventually, Tania, a successfully integrated American immigrant from Eastern Europe, journeys back to her fractured homeland with her mother to unravel the secrets of their shared past.
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Ljiljana Popovic, born in former Yugoslavia
- De Ljiljana Popovic en 03-18-21
De: Tania Romanov
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After the Roundup
- Escape and Survival in Hitler’s France
- De: Joseph Weismann
- Narrado por: J. Clark Allison
- Duración: 5 h y 48 m
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On the nights of July 16 and 17, 1942, French police rounded up 11-year-old Joseph Weismann, his family, and 13,000 other Jews. After being held for five days in appalling conditions in the Vélodrome d'Hiver stadium, Joseph and his family were transported by cattle car to the Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp and brutally separated. A thousand children were left behind to wait for a later train. The French guards told the children that they would soon be reunited with their parents, but Joseph and his new friend, Joe Kogan, chose to risk everything in a daring escape attempt.
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A “must-listen” book
- De Jonathan R Scupin en 09-25-18
De: Joseph Weismann
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Under the Same Sky
- From Starvation in North Korea to Salvation in America
- De: Joseph Kim, Stephan Talty
- Narrado por: Raymond Lee
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
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A searing story of starvation and survival in North Korea, followed by a dramatic escape, rescue by activists and Christian missionaries, and success in the United States thanks to newfound faith and courage.
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Tugs at the heart strings
- De R3v13w3r en 07-15-15
De: Joseph Kim, y otros
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How Dare the Sun Rise
- Memoirs of a War Child
- De: Sandra Uwiringiyimana, Abigail Pesta
- Narrado por: Sandra Uwiringiyimana
- Duración: 6 h y 25 m
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This profoundly moving memoir is the remarkable and inspiring true story of Sandra Uwiringiyimana, a girl from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who tells the tale of how she survived a massacre, immigrated to America, and overcame her trauma through art and activism. Sandra was just 10 years old when she found herself with a gun pointed at her head. She had watched as rebels gunned down her mother and six-year-old sister in a refugee camp.
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Sandra's voice is mesmorizing!
- De Karissa Barber en 04-18-18
De: Sandra Uwiringiyimana, y otros
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The Queen of Katwe
- A Story of Life, Chess, and One Extraordinary Girl
- De: Tim Crothers
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 7 h y 39 m
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Phiona Mutesi sleeps in a decrepit shack with her mother and four siblings and struggles to find a single meal each day. Phiona Mutesi is also one of the best chess players in the world. One day in 2005, while searching for food, nine-year-old Phiona followed her brother to a dusty veranda where she met Robert Katende, another child of the Ugandan slums, who works for an American organization that offers relief and religion through sports. Robert introduced Phiona to the game of chess and soon recognized her immense talent.
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Outstanding!!
- De The Book Hound en 10-22-16
De: Tim Crothers
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Dreams from My Father
- A Story of Race and Inheritance
- De: Barack Obama
- Narrado por: Barack Obama
- Duración: 14 h y 4 m
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In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a Black African father and a White American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a Black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father - a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man - has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey - first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family.
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Powerful
- De Gene R. en 10-26-21
De: Barack Obama
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Nine Continents
- A Memoir In and Out of China
- De: Xiaolu Guo
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 11 h y 53 m
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Xiaolu Guo has traveled further than most to become who she needed to be. Now, as she experiences the birth of her daughter in a London maternity ward surrounded by women from all over the world, she looks back on that journey. It begins in the fishing village shack on the East China Sea where her illiterate grandparents raised her, and brings her to a rapidly changing Beijing, full of contradictions: a thriving underground art scene amid mass censorship, curious Westerners who held out affection only to disappear back home.
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must read
- De Jeff Darlington en 10-22-17
De: Xiaolu Guo
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All Our Names
- De: Dinaw Mengestu
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld, Korey Jackson
- Duración: 8 h y 26 m
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All Our Names is the story of a young man who comes of age during an African revolution, drawn from the hushed halls of his university into the intensifying clamor of the streets outside. But as the line between idealism and violence becomes increasingly blurred, and the path of revolution leads to almost certain destruction, he leaves behind his country and friends for America. There, pretending to be an exchange student, he falls in love with a social worker and settles into the routines of small-town life. Yet this idyll is inescapably darkened by the secrets of his past....
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A Tale of Two Continents
- De David en 07-31-14
De: Dinaw Mengestu
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- Luvs pink
- 05-14-17
Fantastic!
I loved this book. The story and narration were fantastic; I was touched by Saroo's courage, dedication and love for both his adopted family and his birth family.
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- Makenzie
- 03-05-17
Nice storyline but boring
The. narrator had a plesasant voice but there was very little climactic emotion in the story itself. Can't wait to see how this translates to the big screen.
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- K. FRENCH
- 02-13-17
most enjoyable
I was carried along on the journey from India to Australia. It was also educational as I know nothing about these countries.
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- luis
- 07-31-17
Remarkable story
Must buy story - good for all the family; humbling story. Lots to learn from.
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- Emily J
- 05-22-18
It was ok.
The story was interesting, but it was a little slow and the narration didn’t grip me. Sounded forced and dramatic at inappropriate times.
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- Sandra
- 07-09-18
amazing, real life story
I appreciated this book book being narrated in Australian - Indian accents with some character indiividuation.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-27-19
Heart-wrenching story with a wonderful ending.
This book was brilliant! Loved listening to it. The thought of a five-year old (the current age of my son) alone and lost on the busy, bustling street in India in beyond comprehensible and that he survived and came back to find his mum after all those years is truly heart-warming. Made me teary. A book well-written and well narrated. A must read/listen for anyone.
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- iraida
- 07-15-17
Truly Remarkable
The narration and development of this story was perfect! I never watched the movie Lion and I was nervous that this story was going to be too tragic for me to listen to as a mother of three young boys. This story was inspiring and I found it hard to stop listening to it.
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- Caren D.
- 03-05-17
amazing and beautiful and wonderful
loved it - I couldn't stop listening. this is truly an amazing story beautifully told.
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- Brenda
- 03-26-17
What a story!
Amazing story, tough listening to it though... knowing it was real and non fiction. The audio book was very well done and so easy to follow.
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