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Beauty is sorrow

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Indonesian author Eka Kurniawan's epic novel is a stunning synthesis of history, myth, 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 coalesce into a single, vast story, filled with multiple meanings and layers. One May day, Dewi Ayu rose from the grave where she had lain for twenty-one years, returned home, and sat down at the table...
Thus begins one of the most astonishing novels of our time, one with clear echoes of Nikolai Gogol and Gabriel García Márquez, Mikhail Bulgakov and Herman Melville. The story of Dewi Ayu, the most beautiful of beauties, and her daughters, three of whom were even more beautiful than their mother, and the fourth more terrible than death, draws you into a whirlwind of strange and wondrous events directly linked to the fate of Indonesia and the great epic Mahabharata.
Eka Kurniawan's prose is fresh and unusual; it is a significant and striking phenomenon in contemporary world literature.
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