Worldly woes come to a small village in this German bestseller sprinkled with fairytale magic
The okapi lives in the Democratic Republic of Congo, its glossy brown body sloping up from zebra-striped legs. It’s an unlikely presence in western Germany, but that’s not why Selma is unsettled when she sees one, calmly wandering the woods of the Westerwald in her dreams. Selma is scared because every time she dreams an okapi, someone dies.
Rumours and superstitions feel less like flourishes than truths amid the forests and meadows of the Westerwald