"Road Novel" by Antonia Michaelis tells the story of two unlikely heroes and a lot of cows. On a summer night, they meet: Sean, a student from Iran who has been in Germany for two months, and Davy, who has run away from a home in search of a friend. Both witness a robbery. From that moment on, they are pursued by criminals and the police, and they flee together across Germany: over strawberry fields, under dark storm clouds, through beer gardens, in a hot air balloon, by train, and on a moped. Time and again, they find themselves surrounded by cows; it seems to be their fate. Why else would Sean's car, with a deportation order, get stuck in a herd of cows on the way to the airport? Clever, quirky, and humorous, Antonia Michaelis takes her readers on a journey through Germany from the perspective of a refugee and tells the story of an unusual friendship.