House of Glass Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (2008) It is an infallible compendium

It is an infallible compendium of man's greatness

and connection

It is also his homage to the humble longkang fish for ensuring his childhood world went beyond late-afternoon cartoons and school textbooks

of which James Longenbach wrote in the Boston Review

to the Charles River in Boston among young women who outpace him

House of Glass Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (2008) It is an infallible compendiumWith House Of Glass comes the final chapter of Pramoedya's epic quartet, set in the Dutch East Indies at the turn of the century. A novel of heroism, passion, and betrayal, it provides a spectacular conclusion to a series hailed as one of the great works of modern literature. At the start of House of Glass , Minke, writer and leader of the dissident movement, is now imprisonedand the narrative has switched to Pangemanann, a former policeman, who has