One summer around 1880, Friedl, a young royal gamekeeper, watches over the game in the mountains of Bavaria, near the little village of Fall, on the River Isar. He is tracking a poacher who kills chamois and roe deer, and who can be recognised by the nine nails in the soles of his shoes. Friedl loves Modei, who tends cows in a mountain hut and is the mother of a little boy.
But the child's father, Blasi, also has nine nails in the soles of his shoes. A novel of love and hunting, full of the simple life of Bavarian villages and mountain pastures.
Simply written, with vivid scenes, the novel is easy to read in the language you are learning.
