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Early 1900s: The fourth of the Tetralogi Buru Series
House of Glass (Buru Quartet 4)
What you need to know before your trail
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.
Travel Guide
Travel to Dutch East Indies in Indonesia, 1890s.
The Buru tetralogy was composed orally on Buru Island during the first half of the author’s fourteen-year imprisonment without trial. Writing or reading anything but religious texts was strictly forbidden. Pramoedya would tell each installment to the people with whom he shared his hut; they in turn would tell others until the thousands of political prisoners held on Buru knew the story. In the latter half of his imprisonment, Pramoedya was allowed to write the novels he had composed orally.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: House of Glass (Buru Quartet 4)
Destination: Indonesia Author/guide: Pramoedya Ananta Toer Departure Time: 1890s, 1900s
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