What You Can See from Here, Mariana Leky
What You Can See from Here, Mariana Leky
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What You Can See from Here

Author: Mariana Leky

Narrator: Nikki Zakocs

Unabridged: 8 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Vibrance Press

Published: 08/15/2021


Synopsis

In this international bestseller by the award-winning novelist Mariana Leky, a heartwarming story unfolds about a small town, a grandmother whose dreams foretell a coming death, and the young woman forever changed by these losses and her loving, endearingly oddball community

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.

Luisa, Selma’s ten-year-old granddaughter, looks on as the predictable characters of her small world begin acting strangely. Protesting that they are not superstitious, each of the villagers grapples with the buried secrets and deferred decisions that have suddenly become urgent in the face of death.

Luisa’s mother struggles to decide whether to end her marriage. An old family friend, known only as the optician, tries to find the courage to tell Selma he loves her. Only Sad Marlie

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lotte on May 27, 2018

Mit den Büchern auf deutschen Bestseller-Listen kann ich meistens recht wenig anfangen. Nachdem mir Was man von hier aus sehen kann allerdings mehrmals persönlich empfohlen wurde und ich sonst auch nur Positives gehört hatte, dachte ich, ich probiere es mal aus. Und was soll ich sagen – es traf gena......more

Goodreads review by Regina on June 22, 2021

If books wore shoes, What You Can See from Here would wear slippers. It plods along so softly that you barely notice its forward movement. Then it kicks you gently in the shin to say, pay attention, I’m here and something just happened. Originally published in German in 2017, it is primarily the sto......more

Goodreads review by Nicole on April 24, 2021

Muszę pozbierać myśli, ale aż mi przykro, że się zawiodłam.......more

Goodreads review by Ms. Smartarse on May 26, 2021

Translated into English as What You Can See From Here In my ongoing search for suitable German reading material I somehow stumbled on the one book that everyone agrees is totally brilliant and impossible to summarize. Book store owner/author Petra Hartlieb puts it most eloquently: "if we tried to [su......more

Goodreads review by Eric on February 28, 2022

It's been a while since a novel has consistently made me smile. “What You Can See From Here” has a wonderful lightness of touch to it while also being an emotional story which considers larger philosophical issues about the human condition. It follows Luisa who, at the start of the novel, is an adol......more