Ebook {Epub PDF} Zoo City by Lauren Beukes

Zoo City. Winner of the Arthur C Clarke Award. Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 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, . Lauren Beukes’ descriptions of both the vibe of the city and its physical reality capture the twin undercurrents of promise and foreboding that are Johannesburg today. The book suffers from a common flaw often found in the fantasy/sci-fi genre: while the setting up of Beukes “world” and the storytelling and dialogue are spot on, the ending is unsatisfying and not on par with the rest of the book/5(). "Lauren Beukes brings to Zoo City the observant, cynical eye for the intersection of media, business, and pop culture that animated her debut, Moxyland, and pairs it with a funny, colloquial, and casually poetic first-person narrator and thriller pacing to take urban fantasy to the next level." www.doorway.ru().

Zoo City, by Lauren Beukes. One-line summary: Sex, drugs, rock and roll, and magical animal companions in Johannesburg. Angry Robot, , pages Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 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. Zoo City is an Urban fantasy novel by the South African author Lauren Beukes. Zinzi December is a woman with a gift, and perhaps a curse - over ten years ago a remarkable and disturbing event changed the lives of many, and the world in general. Zoo City (Paperback) Published August 18th by Angry Robot (Osprey Publishing) Paperback, pages. Author (s): Lauren Beukes (Goodreads Author) ISBN: (ISBN ) Edition language: English.

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