Zoo City The gripping and original WINNER of the 2011 Arthur C Clarke award
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Biographical note
LAUREN BEUKES is the award-winning and internationally bestselling author of The Shining Girls, which has been adapted by AppleTV+ starring Elisabeth Moss, as well as Zoo City, which won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Moxyland, Broken Monsters, and Afterland. Her novels have been published in twenty-four countries, and she's also a screenwriter, comics writer, journalist, and award-winning documentary maker. She lives in London with two trouble cats and her daughter.[Beukes] <b>brings a secret tenderness and humanity</b> to her off-kilter portrait of the here and now
Guardian
Lauren Beukes is <b>very, *very* good</b>. It feels <b>effortless</b>. <b>Utterly accomplished</b>
- William Gibson,
<b>A fabulous outing from an extremely promising writer</b> ... [It] has <b>so much fabulous wordplay</b>, <b>imaginative </b>settings and scenarios, and such a dark and cynical heart that <b>I was totally riveted by it</b>
- Cory Doctorow,
Beukes's energetic noir phantasmagoria ... <b>crackles with original ideas </b>... Beukes skilfully employs all the twists of <b>first-rate noir</b> ... <b>powerful indeed</b>
- Jeff Vandermeer, <i>New York Times</i>,
Beukes delivers <b>a thrill ride </b>that gleefully merges narrative styles and tropes, <b>almost single-handedly pulling the "urban fantasy" subgenre back towards its groundbreaking roots</b>
Publishers Weekly
<b>Energetic and imaginative</b> ... <b>Packed with colour, dark humour and thought-provoking ideas</b>, <i>Zoo City</i> is <b>an absolute must</b> for anyone with a taste for the wilder edges of the genre
SFX Magazine
<b>Original</b> and <b>unputdownable</b>
Cosmopolitan
An<b> unpredictable and helluva awesome read</b>
Heat
Lauren Beukes is Jeff Noon crossed with Raymond Chandler. <b>I loved it, it's going to be huge</b>
- Paul Cornell,
<b>I couldn't put this down. It's weird, thrilling, funny...</b> filled with sleazy characters and lots of bad attitude
- Mike Nicol,
FROM THE AUTHOR BEHIND BRAND NEW APPLE TV HIT SHINING GIRLS
WINNER OF THE 2011 ARTHUR C CLARKE AWARD
'A major, major talent' GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
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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 paycheque, 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 pop star should be her ticket out of Zoo City, the festering slum where the criminal underclass and their animal companions reside.
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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'Beukes is very *very* good. It feels effortless, utterly accomplished' William Gibson
'Beukes brings a secret tenderness and humanity to her off-kilter portrait of the here and now' Guardian
'Exquisitely paced and impeccably controlled. An enormously satisfying novel' New York Times Book Review