Akif Pirincci's 1993 novel, "Felidae," is a murder mystery
told by first-person narrator Francis, a cat, who in the
second sentence says,
"a life of harmony and tranquility is a brief affair." This
was no
"Tailchaser's Song," a fantasy novel with a feline narrator;
this was a crime novel set in a very different subculture.
It's been seven years since I read the novel, but I remember
"Felidae" as a superb literary psychological thriller that
may have been hardboiled, as well. It certainly was along its
edges if not through-and-through. It won Germany's top crime
novel of the year award when it was published there, probably
in 1991 or 1992.
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