House of Glass (Buru Quartet) by Pramoedya Ananta Toer

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.