An epic novel of Indonesian Эки Курниавана is a surprizing synthesis of history, myths, satire, domestic saga, romantic adventures and magic realism. Life of wonderful Деви Аю and her four daughters is the train of horrific, unbelievable, perceptible, love, reckless and touching episodes, that is folded in one large history gap-filling in a number of senses and levels.Once rose from the May day of Деви Аю graves, where lay twenty one year, came home and sat down for a table. So one of surprizing novels of our days, the echoes of Nikolay Гоголя and Gabriel Гарсиа Маркеса, Mikhail Булгакова and Herman Мелвилла are distinct in that, begins. History of Деви Аю, beautiful woman from beautiful women, and her daughters, three from that were even more wonderful than mother, and fourth more frightful than death, tightens in the whirlwind of strange and surprizing events, straight related to the fate of Indonesia and great epos of "Махабхарата. Prose of Эки Курниавана is fresh and unusual, in modern world literature this enormous and bright phenomenon.