The Lizard Cage
by Karen Connelly | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0385525036 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0385525036 Global Overview for this book
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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 Rangoon gulag, dissident singer/songwriter Teza stalks and eats the acrobatic lizards that venture across his cell's ceiling at sundown. Senior jailer Nyunt Wai Oo angles for a promotion by scheming to plant contraband writing materials inside the celebrated Teza's cage. The plot backfires when Teza inadvertently passes the proscribed ballpoint to the illiterate, resourceful serving boy, Nyi Lay, who hoards the pen for dear life. As the entire prison is shaken down and Teza and Nyi Lay are tortured nearly to death, a bond of brotherhood develops between the lowly Nyi Lay and Teza. The gangster inmate on the ward, Tan-see Tiger, who oversees an in-house smuggling operation, completes the triangle; he and Teza realize that the only measure of liberation left to them lies in making sure Nyi Lay leaves the prison camp alive. A brutal exposé with harrowing descriptions of prison life and heavily spiritual overtones, Connelly's novel combines a thrillerlike pace with finely etched portraits that show how each character takes control of his own freedom. (from Publishers Weekly)
Journal Entry 2 by bookworm76 at -- Nonspecific release zone - details in notes -- in Brisbane, Queensland Australia on Sunday, November 7, 2021
Released 2 yrs ago (11/7/2021 UTC) at -- Nonspecific release zone - details in notes -- in Brisbane, Queensland Australia
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I am taking this along to the next Brisbane Bookcrossing meetup. If not picked up I will leave somewhere.
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