About the book: 2018 / The epic novel by Indonesian Eka Kurniawan is an amazing synthesis of history, myths, satire, family saga, romantic adventure and magical realism. The life of the beautiful Dewi Ayu and her four daughters is a series of terrifying, incredible, sensual, loving, crazy and touching episodes that add up to one big story filled with many meanings and levels. One day in May, Dewi Ayu rose from the grave where she had lain for twenty-one year, returned home and sat down at the table... Thus begins one of the most amazing novels of our days, in which there are clear echoes of Nikolai Gogol and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mikhail Bulgakov and Herman Melville. The story of Dewi Ayu, the beauty of beauties, and her daughters, three of whom were even more beautiful than their mother, and the fourth more terrible than death, draws us into a whirlwind of strange and wonderful events directly related to the fate of Indonesia and the great epic “Mahabharata”. Eka Kurniawan's prose is fresh and unusual; it is a huge and striking phenomenon in modern world literature.