'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
