by Karen Connelly

 

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In The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly, two brothers fight for a woman named Aung San Suu Kyi, one using words and the other using weapons.

Aung San Suu Kyi believes that Burma must return to a political democracy. While his brother fights for freedom as part of a group of guerrillas, it is Teza, the guitar-playing songwriter, whose words inspire revolution. He is eventually imprisoned and tortured. Teza escapes the cage of his solitary confinement through meditation and hope; the cage that traps the spirits of his jailers proves much more difficult to break.

Burma (formerly and still legally Myanmar) comes vividly to life in this story of anger, cruelty and betrayal.