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Zoo City by Lauren Beukes

Zoo City by Lauren Beukes

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Winner of the Arthur C Clarke Award.

Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit and a talent for finding lost things. But when a little old lady turns up dead and the cops confiscate her last paycheck, she's forced to take on her least favourite 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.

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.

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Kendall Rae Behr
Jozi City

Zoo City is an exploration of an alternate Johannesburg. Beukes manages to create a world that I could not stop explorng with horrified fascination and awe. This book is a combination between sci-fi, fantasy, and real than real fiction. Read if you enjoy thrillers and mind-altering realities.

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