And the fourth novel, Rumah Kaca, reveals the colonial government’s efforts to strike at all activities of the nationalist movement through a meticulous operation of archiving. The archive becomes the radar of the Indies administration, placed everywhere to record anything carried out by movement … [Read more...]
Rumah Kaca
House of Glass
May 19, 2018 by
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 Javanese writer. By now, Minke has risen to become a leading dissident and is … [Read more...]