Beauty is grief. Kournian E.

World Readers' Award 2016. The epic novel of the Indonesian of the Equal Kurniavan is an amazing synthesis of history, myths, satires, family saga, romantic adventures and magical realism. The life of the beautiful Devi Ayu and her four daughters is a series of terrifying, incredible, sensual, love, crazy and touching episodes, which are formed in one great history, filled with many meanings and levels. Once in a May day, Devi Ayu rose from the grave, where she lay twenty -one years old, returned home and sat down at the table... Thus begins one of the most amazing novels of our days, in which the echoes of Nikolai Gogol and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mikhail Bulgakov and German Melville are distinct. The story of Devi Ayu, beauties from beauties, and her daughters, three of whom were even more beautiful than his mother, and the fourth is worse than death, draws in a whirlwind of strange and amazing events directly related to the fate of Indonesia and the great epic of Mahabharata. The prose of the crew Kurniavan is fresh and unusual, in modern world literature it is a huge and bright phenomenon. The press about the book in his novel Kurniavan combines the ultimate seriousness with disrespectful irony, historical facts with magical realism. Its eclecticism slightly resembles the manner of Salman Rushdi. Artreview Asiaders, incredibly funny, fierce novel of the most ambitious writer of Asia.