Demain les chats

Bastet is a young cat in Montmartre who regards her human, Nathalie, as a well-meaning "servant" and longs to truly understand — and be understood by — the people around her. Her chance arrives through Pythagore, a neighbor's cat fitted with a strange "third eye" that plugs him directly into the internet and the whole of human knowledge. But as the two cats reach toward communication, Paris tears itself apart: terrorism curdles into civil war, a plague spreads, and armies of rats rise to take the city — leaving cats and humans to work out, together, who will inherit what remains. The first novel of Bernard Werber's feline trilogy.