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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
A true love story
Written by Karen Connelly

Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
On Sale: May 18, 2010
Price: $27.95

When Karen Connelly goes to Burma in 1996 to gather information for a series of articles, she discovers a place of unexpected beauty and generosity. She also encounters a country ruled by a brutal military dictatorship that imposes a code of censorship and terror. Carefully seeking out the regime’s critics, she... Read more >

Burmese Lessons
A true love story
Written by Karen Connelly

Format: eBook, 400 pages
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
On Sale: May 18, 2010
Price: $21.99

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The Lizard Cage

Written by Karen Connelly

Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $14.00

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The Lizard Cage

Written by Karen Connelly

Format: eBook, 464 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
On Sale: September 21, 2011
Price: $9.99

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