For close to two years, Karen Connelly lived among Burmese exiles and dissidents on the Thai-Burma border. She brings their experiences to life in her first novel “The Lizard Cage” (Nan A. Talese, 448 ...
Karen Connelly's novel "The Lizard Cage" was a finalist for last year's Kiriyama prize for fiction. The award recognizes outstanding books about the Pacific Rim and South Asia. Our reviewer Alan ...
The Lizard Cage is a harrowing piece of fiction — with a lyrical streak — about inmates and jailers in a Burmese prison. Karen Connelly's novel first appeared in Canada and was named as a finalist for ...