Presenter, journalist and author Christine Westermann loves books. Here she presents her new discovery every two weeks. In “Frankie”, author Jochen Gutsch skillfully mixes humor and tragedy when a talking tomcat and a suicidal man strike up a conversation.
Her name is Elfriede Jelinek. When she arrived as a tiny ball of wool, the Gutsch family wanted to give the little cat something sublime. The name of a Nobel Prize winner in literature fitted. Especially since the Cat Handbook recommended giving cats a name with a lot of vowels.