Selma, an old Westerwälderin, can foresee death. Whenever an okapi appears in a dream, someone dies in the village the next day. It is unclear, however, who it will meet. Mariana Leky tells in her novel what the residents fear, what they blindly dare, confess or disappear in the following hours. > What you can see from here <is the portrait of a village in which everything is miraculously connected. But above all it is a book about love under difficult circumstances, love, which seems to always choose the most unfavorable conditions. For Luise, for example, Selma's granddaughter, it is to bridge many thousands of miles. Because the man she loves has converted to Buddhism and lives in a monastery in Japan ...
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