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 ...

"Epic" is a word that will certainly be used to describe Karen Connelly's first novel, "The Lizard Cage." Well researched and supported by the author's numerous visits to Burma and her two-year ...

Connelly won the Governor General's Award for Nonfiction with Dream of a Thousand Lives: A Sojourn in Thailand, and her debut novel revisits Southeast Asia to soulful effect. Imprisoned in a mid-'90s ...

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 ...