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Karen Connelly


KAREN CONNELLY is the author of nine books of non-fiction, fiction and poetry, the most recent being The Lizard Cage, which the New York Times Book Review compared to the works of Solzhenitsyn, Mandela and Orwell. It was nominated for the Kiriyama Prize and won Britain's Orange Broadband Prize for New Writers. Raised in Calgary, Connelly has lived for extended periods of time in different parts of Asia and Europe and now has two homes, one in Toronto and one in Greece.  

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Burmese Lessons
Written by Karen Connelly

Trade Paperback | 480 pages | Vintage Canada | Travel - Asia; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-307-35669-7 (0-307-35669-8)

May 18, 2010 | $21.00

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Burmese Lessons
Written by Karen Connelly

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307356697
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Burmese Lessons is a love story. Unlike conventional love stories, this one takes the reader into a world as dangerous and heartbreaking as it is enchanting.

When Karen Connelly finds herself in Burma in the late 1990s, she is immersed in a world of students staging mass demonstrations in opposition to...

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The Lizard Cage
Written by Karen Connelly

eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37566-7 (0-307-37566-8)

January 11, 2010 | $13.99

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The Lizard Cage
Written by Karen Connelly

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ISBN: 9780307375667
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Set during Burma's military dictatorship of the mid—1990s, Karen Connelly’s exquisitely written and harshly realistic debut novel is a hymn to human resilience and love.

In the sealed-off world of a vast Burmese prison known as the cage, Teza languishes in solitary confinement seven years into a twenty-year sentence. Arrested in 1988...

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Burmese Lessons
Written by Karen Connelly

eBook | pages | Random House Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Travel - Asia
978-0-307-37278-9 (0-307-37278-2)

September 29, 2009 | $13.99

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Burmese Lessons
Written by Karen Connelly

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ISBN: 9780307372789
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Burmese Lessons is a love story. Unlike conventional love stories, this one takes the reader into a world as dangerous and heartbreaking as it is enchanting.

When Karen Connelly finds herself in Burma in the late 1990s, she is immersed in a world of students staging mass demonstrations in opposition to...

Also available as a trade paperback.

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The Lizard Cage
Written by Karen Connelly

Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-679-31328-1 (0-679-31328-1)

March 6, 2007 | $21.00

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The Lizard Cage
Written by Karen Connelly

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780679313281
Our Price: $21.00
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Set during Burma's military dictatorship of the mid—1990s, Karen Connelly’s exquisitely written and harshly realistic debut novel is a hymn to human resilience and love.

In the sealed-off world of a vast Burmese prison known as the cage, Teza languishes in solitary confinement seven years into a twenty-year sentence. Arrested in 1988...

Also available as an eBook.

              
              



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