House of Glass by Pramoedya Ananta Toer5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Minke was described as a talented young student who has a great interest in science, history, politics, and journalistic writing. Toer depicted the first three books to be personal notes of Minke. ![]() The protagonist named Minke (not a real name), an aristocratic Javanese young man who gained an exceptional privilege to obtain an European education. The background of this quartet is Dutch East-Indies (now Indonesia) in the late 19th until early 20th century, where Indonesia’s national awakening has started to arise. The four books of this quartet: This Earth of Mankind, Child of All Nations, Footsteps, and House of Glass were being considered as a timeline of the protagonist’s footsteps toward his goals. Fortunately, several survived copies were circulated outside Indonesia to be translated and internationally published. ![]() But shortly after the manuscripts were completely written and being published, the quartet was banned by Attorney General and majority of the published copies were withdrawn from circulation and burned. Before his writing rights was given, Toer orally told the story to his fellow prisoners. This quartet was written during Toer’s 14-years imprisonment as a political prisoner during Indonesia’s New Order Government in Buru Island of Moluccas, after being accused without a trial. The Buru Quartet is a historical fiction tetralogy by an internationally acclaimed novelist from Indonesia, Pramoedya Ananta Toer. ![]() “The Buru Quartet” by Penguin Books (1990) ![]()
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