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Original Title:	Zoo City
ISBN:	0007327684 (ISBN13: 9780007327683)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Zinzi December
Setting:	Johannesburg(South Africa)
Literary Awards:	Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Novel (2011), World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (2011), British Science Fiction Association Award Nominee for Novel (2010), James Tiptree Jr. Award Nominee for Longlist (2011), Tähtifantasia Award Nominee (2017) Tähtivaeltaja Award (2017), The Kitschies for Red Tentacle (Novel) (2010)

Zoo City

Lauren Beukes

Paperback | Pages: 416 pages

Rating: 3.64 | 9938 Users | 1447 Reviews

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Title	:	Zoo City
Author	:	Lauren Beukes
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 416 pages
Published	:	April 29th 2010 by Angry Robot
Categories	:	Fantasy. Urban Fantasy. Fiction. Science Fiction. Mystery. Cultural. Africa

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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 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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I hate it when I read a book that's beautifully written, but has a clumsy plot. I was seduced by the writing while I was reading it, and it wasn't until after I finished that I started realizing how many problems I had with it. In this alternate history/SF world, people's guilt over their mistakes or crimes manifests as animals that are emotionally or psychically attached to them, sort of like having an albatross hung around your neck, except living and not so corpsey. This was interesting to

Second read for this fantasy. Hugely energetic mystery based around a brilliantly weird idea: people who commit serious crimes find themselves with linked animals, a bit like daemons but not nice--and if the animal dies, a weird shadowy doom comes for the person. The exploration of the social impacts of this (eg bad boy pop stars faking being animalled to look hard, or the issues of being animalled in prison) and the documentary inserts are probably my favourite aspects of this--the plot is a

Oh, Zinzi. I wanted to like you, I really did.The book picked me up and carried me along until three-quarters of the way through, when it promptly dropped me and went off to lose its way.I found myself discombobulated at the start of chapters, because everything was in medias res and Zinzi had to backtrack to cover where she was and what was happening. It felt like an overly awkward way to tell the whole story - fine for chapters in which it was necessary, but that certainly wasn't the case



This book takes the reader into the nitty gritty of Johannesburg, the slums, the underworld, and at the same time it introduces a touch of magic in a very unique way.Zinzi has committed a crime, and for that has been saddled with a connection with an Animal, a sloth, which she takes with her everywhere she goes. Due to her Animal connection, she has also developed the ability to find the lost things of other people. She lives in Zoo City in the Joburg CBD, where other people with Animals live,

3.5 stars(sheesh, here we go again with Goodreads sucking up my reviews....twice...)Gonna keep this short: I was very impressed with my first encounter with Lauren Beukes' imaginative stylings (not unlike those of China Miéville). Zoo City, impossible to pigeon-hole (is it science fiction? dystopia? thriller? social commentary? good old fashioned magical murder mystery? kinda "yes" to all) is a bizarre, alternate universe'd, present day reimagining of Johannesburg, South Africa, one where

Before I read this, I would have said there was nothing new you could do with the magical companion animals trope. I would have been wrong.I enjoyed this--for the concept, for the characters, for the setting. I was all set to give it four stars. And then the ending happened.(view spoiler)[And it's not that it's a tragedy that bothers me. I actually appreciate the author's chutzpah in having the twins die, in having the bad guys escape. (I less appreciate the bad guys' over-the-top