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Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
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Zoo City

The gripping novel from the author of Apple TV’s Shining Girls
by Lauren Beukes
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Narrator Qondiswa James

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Length 9 hours 13 minutes
Language English
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Summary

Brought to you by Penguin.

WINNER OF THE 2011 ARTHUR C CLARKE AWARD

Lauren Beukes' tale of a young woman trapped in a brutal city but looking for a way out . . .

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.


'A major, major talent' George R. R. Martin

'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

© Lauren Beukes 2018 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

FictionMystery & ThrillerScience FictionFantasyApocalyptic & Dystopian

Audiobook details

Author
Narrator Qondiswa James
ISBN 9781405941754
Length 9 hours 13 minutes
Language English
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Publication date
Edition Unabridged
Genres Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Science Fiction, Fantasy & Apocalyptic & Dystopian
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Reviews

[Beukes] brings a secret tenderness and humanity to her off-kilter portrait of the here and now Lauren Beukes is very, *very* good. It feels effortless. Utterly accomplished A fabulous outing from an extremely promising writer ... [It] has so much fabulous wordplay, imaginative settings and scenarios, and such a dark and cynical heart that I was totally riveted by it Beukes's energetic noir phantasmagoria ... crackles with original ideas ... Beukes skilfully employs all the twists of first-rate noir ... powerful indeed Beukes delivers a thrill ride that gleefully merges narrative styles and tropes, almost single-handedly pulling the "urban fantasy" subgenre back towards its groundbreaking roots Energetic and imaginative ... Packed with colour, dark humour and thought-provoking ideas, Zoo City is an absolute must for anyone with a taste for the wilder edges of the genre Original and unputdownable An unpredictable and helluva awesome read Lauren Beukes is Jeff Noon crossed with Raymond Chandler. I loved it, it's going to be huge I couldn't put this down. It's weird, thrilling, funny... filled with sleazy characters and lots of bad attitude An unfamiliar land full of familiars, a broken Johannesburg peopled with damaged wonders... If our words are bullets, Lauren Beukes is a marksman in a world of drunken machine-gunners Zoo City is pure originality ... a book that had me reading it revelling in Beukes' magical way with words At times the witty and lyrical prose is sheer magic, the story captivating and the characters exotic, cruel and beautiful while the backdrop of Johannesburg seethes with hidden, lurking dangers around every corner, Zoo City is quite simply captivating Expand reviews
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