By Karen Connelly
Fantastically written and taking us into an unique land, Karen Connelly’s debut novel The Lizard Cage is a party of the resilience of the human spirit.
Teza as soon as electrified the folks of Burma together with his protest songs opposed to the dictatorship. Arrested via the Burmese mystery police within the days of mass protest, he's seven years right into a twenty-year sentence in solitary confinement. bring to an end from his family members and speak to with different prisoners, he applies his acute intelligence, Buddhist persistence, and humor to discover that means within the interminable days, and searches for information in each being and item that's grudgingly allowed into his cell.
Despite his isolation, Teza has a profound effect at the humans round him. His very life demanding situations the brutal authority of the jailers, and his steadfast spirit evokes radical swap. even if Teza’s legal server attempts to compromise the singer for his personal achieve, Teza befriends him and hazards falling into the catch of forbidden dialog, nutrients, and the main risky contraband of all: paper and pen.
Yet, it's via Teza’s dating with Little Brother, a twelve-year-old orphan who’s grown up contained in the partitions, that we finally come to appreciate the significance of desire and human connection in the course of injustice and violence. Teza and the boy are prisoners of other orders: just one of them desires of break out and just one of them will in attaining it—their striking friendship frees either one of them in completely extraordinary methods.
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