The Lizard Cage
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780385518185 (0385518188)
Publish date: March 20th 2007
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
This promises to be an amazing book if you are one of those lucky readers who doesn't mind present tense writing. I, alas, am not. I tried hard with this one because I could tell it was worth reading, but the present tense narration was just too much of a struggle. Few authors who write in the prese...
Beautifully written and brutal to read. This book brought me so viscerally into a Burmese prison cell, it was painful to keep reading. A powerful story focused on one way spiritual faith, creativity, and lizards can keep you alive in the darkest of prisons. It was just a bit too rough a journey for ...