Zoo City
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (819 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01922I1FM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 305 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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. She worked as a journalist and as show runner on one of the South Africa's biggest animated TV shows, directed an award-winning documentary and wrote the New York Times best-selling graphic novel, Fairest: The Hidden Kingdom. She's the author of the critically-acclaimed international best-seller, The Shining Girls, about a time traveling serial killer, Z
"This is the kind of UF I want to read" according to Lisa (Starmetal Oak Reviews). Going into Zoo City, I didn't know what to expect. This is my first novel by Lauren Beukes, but I have heard great things about her other novel, Moxyland. What I found was a very unique and exciting experience in an urban fantasy world, one I haven't enjoyed as much since I read War for the Oaks by Emma Bull.The story centers around Zinzi December, a young woman living in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her life isn't going so great, having once had a job as a journalist, she is now writing scam emails to pay back . "South Africa on the Attack!" according to S. Duke. When my friend and I asked Lauren Beukes to describe Zoo City, she understandably remarked that the book is rather difficult to explain. Zoo City isn't like a lot of books. On the one hand it is a noir murder mystery with a semi-New Weird slant, but on the other it is a novel about refugees, the music industry, South Africa, guilt, revenge, drugs, prejudice, poverty, and so much more. It is a gloriously complicated novel with equally complicated characters. You might even call it a brilliant example of worldbui. Douglas J. Bassett said Surprisingly Pretty Decent. I came to this book with fairly low expectations but ended up enjoying it, more or less. In a future world where (after some-unnamed cataclysm, though it seems to be terroristic in nature) those who sin have animal familiars, low-level magic powers, and the constant threat of encountering damnation ("the Undertow"), our heroine starts searching for a missing Afro-Pop diva and runs into the usual adventures.Stuff it does right: the world is very well-presented, particularly in it's use of magic, which is never h
It’s gritty, it’s tangled and it’s flawed; nothing is polished, nothing perfect. She’d better ready herself for one helluva wild ride." - Mandy De Waal, The Daily Maverick"Beukes has written a book about something deeply important, but she’s willing to stand back and let us figure it out for ourselves." - pornokitsch"If you don’t read Zoo City, you’re missing out on one of the best modern books in and outside the fantasy genre." -TheRantingDragon"Beukes’s future city is as spiky, distinctive and material a place as any cyberpunkopolis, and qui
A new paperback edition of Lauren Beukes's Arthur C Clarke Award-winning novel set in a world where murderers and other criminals acquire magical animals that are mystically bonded to them.Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit, and a talent for finding lost things. Instead, it catapults Zinzi deeper into the maw of a city twisted by crime and magic, where she'll be forced to confront the dark secrets of former lives--including her own.. When a little old lady turns up dead and the cops confiscate her last paycheck, Zinzi's forced to take on her least favorite kind of job--missing persons.Being hired by reclusive music producer Odi Huron to find a teenybop pop star should be her ticket out of Zoo City, the festering slum where the criminal underclass and their animal companions live in the shadow of hell's undertow