Schaukler - Reading with Selma Mahlknecht
One hundred years of history, artfully intertwined with the thousand-year-old frescoes of St. Proculus, told in an exciting and entertaining way.
In her second historical novel, the South Tyrolean author, who has lived in Zernez for many years, retraces the history of the past hundred years through the lens of the village of Naturno in an exciting and entertaining way. The frescoes of St. Proculus, rediscovered only in 1924, depicting cows, angels, saints, and the enigmatic motif of the rocking horse, form the basic structure of the novel. Through the eyes of the decorative painter Hans, who repeatedly finds refuge in the frescoes, the thoughts and feelings of the ordinary people become visible, whose actions help shape local history.