openDemocracy's editor Isabel Hilton interviews Karen Connelly on our weekly poDcast, click here to listen. This extract is from Karen Connelly's first novel, "The Lizard Cage" (Harvill Secker, 2007).

The Lizard Cage is a harrowing piece of fiction — with a lyrical streak — about inmates and jailers in a Burmese prison. Karen Connelly's... Book Takes Readers Inside 'The Lizard Cage' ROBERT SIEGEL, ...

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 ...