<b><big> ''Manages something only a few books achieve: it makes you happy'' <i>Munich Mercury </i></big></b><b><big></b><b> ''A clear-eyed tonic in troubled times'' <i>Guardian</i></b><b></big></b>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 <i>not </i>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, <i>What You Can See from Here</i> is a story about the way loss and love shape not just a person, but a community.<i><b>The international bestseller which sold over 600,000 copies in Germany </b></i>