Beautiful: all women really want this. However, what if Beauty was a wound. As experienced by Dewi Ayu and her three daughters. It has been twenty years since his death, when Dewi Ayu rose from her grave and walked back to the house she used to live in with Roshina, where she left her last child who she lived to die of her own will. Dewi Ayu really wanted to die, to the point that she deliberately lay on her back wrapped in a shroud to wait for the time of her death, and it seems that the owner of the universe granted her wish on the twelfth day when she breathed her last.
Dewi Ayu has a life that I call magical in Halimunda, the village where she was born to a Dutch father and a mixed Indonesian mother, who in fact are siblings who fell in love with each other and gave birth to Dewi Ayu. Dewi Ayu never left Halimunda, even after the Japanese arrived and forced all Dutch families and descendants to return to their own country. Dewi Ayu is very beautiful, many men are lustful to see her, they want one night to make love to her and do whatever they can imagine.
Urged by her condition as a prisoner, at a relatively young age, Dewi Ayu is forced to live as a prostitute at Mama Kalong's house, working to serve the Japanese soldiers to fulfill their desires. As a prostitute, Dewi Ayu is very famous and is the most expensive in Halimunda. Having sex with so many people, Dewi Ayu gave birth to daughters who never knew who their father was.
Dewi Ayu's three daughters also inherited the beauty of their mother, which had been seen from an early age and many people were waiting for them to grow into perfect girls who were ready to be slept with. Dewi Ayu is quite annoyed to see the lives of her three daughters who always intersect with men, tease them, even make men break their hearts on purpose. She knows that their beauty will one day be bad for themselves. So when she found out that she was pregnant with a fourth child, she prayed that the child in her womb would be given a very ugly face.
She imagined a nose like an electric plug, ears like a pot, jet black skin like charcoal from burnt and that was what happened when she gave birth to her fourth daughter, twelve days before she died. The last child was named Cantik. Even so, Cantik is also not free from the temptation of love, which seems to be karma for Dewi Ayu's inheritance, due to the romantic revenge of a ghost who haunts Dewi Ayu's ex-husband.
Overall this book is very interesting, presented with a classic genre that gave me a lot of information about the life of the communist party, in 1965. The author presents a relay story and sequels.[]