House of Glass
Published on 25. September 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-14-025679-6 (ISBN)
Description
HOUSE OF GLASS is the final volume of Pramoedya Ananta Toer's acclaimed BURU quartet, which chronicles the turbulent history of early twentieth-century, Dutch colonial Indonesia through the eyes of Minke, a Dutch-educated Javanense writer. By now, Minke has risen to become a leading dissident and is in prison. He struggles from his 'house of glass' to stir both in his own countrymen and its invaders a sense of justice and of a society awakened.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
405 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-025679-6 (9780140256796)
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Pramoedya Ananta Toer was born on the island of Java in 1925. He was imprisoned first by the Dutch from 1947 to 1949 for his role in the Indonesian revolution, then by the Indonesian government as a political prisoner. Many of his works have been written while in prison, including the BURU QUARTET. Pramoedya is the author of over thirty works of fiction and non-fiction and is heavily tipped to win the Nobel Prize.