'Manages something only a few books achieve: it makes you happy' Munich Mercury 'A
clear-eyed tonic in troubled times' Guardian On a beautiful spring day a small village in
Western Germany wakes up to an omen: Selma has dreamed of an okapi. Someone is about to die.
But who? As the residents of the village begin acting strangely (despite protestations that
they are not superstitious) Selma's granddaughter Luise looks on as the imminent threat brings
long carried secrets to the surface. And when death comes it comes in a way none of them could
have predicted... A story about the absurdity of life and death a bittersweet portrait of
village life and the wider world that beckons beyond What You Can See from Here is a story
about the way loss and love shape not just a person but a community. The international
bestseller which sold over 600 000 copies in Germany
