The tremendous success of that first Katzenkrimi would be repeated some four years later with Francis (1992). Francis was first encountered in Pirincci's breakthrough novel Felidae (1989), which became a best-seller in Germany and a cult favorite among cat and mystery lovers. Kein Wunder, war ich doch bis dahin der hellste Stern im Universum meiner Wahrnehmng und die alles uberstrahlende Sonne in dem der anderen." The reader enters the feline world (and Weltanschauung) through the eyes of Francis, a black cat with an acerbic tongue and a cynical take on modern humanity, but with one marked change: the narrator has matured and become somewhat more tolerant of the foibles of certain humans (Dosenoffner, as his species calls us).
ISBN 3-8218-0865-9ĭAS DUELL, the fourth novel in Akif Pirincci's Felidae series, begins with a seemingly self-assured narrative voice: "ich selbst fuhlte mich gefeit gegen derlei charakterliche Abnutzungserscheinungen ('Selbstuberschatzung' and 'Geringschatzung der Jugend').
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