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    Living the dream

    Jul 11, 2021 2 minutes
    by CHARLOTTE GRIMSHAW

    ariana Leky’s third novel, , begins with an omen. Selma, an elderly resident of a small village in West Germany, wakes with a grim forecast: she has dreamt about an okapi – a small, striped, giraffe-like animal. She tries to keep it quiet, but news of the dream leaks out, and everyone in the community knows what it

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