Zoo City

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Lauren Beukes: Zoo City (2014, HarperCollins Publishers)

English language

Published Nov. 6, 2014 by HarperCollins Publishers.

ISBN:
978-1-299-59289-6
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4 stars (1 review)

Zinzi has a talent for finding lost things.

To save herself, she’s got to find the hardest thing of all: the truth.

An astonishing second novel from the author of the highly-acclaimed Moxyland.

15 editions

Review of 'Zoo City' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Intriguing. The world of zoos – people who commit a crime, and are punished with an animal familiar attached to them in some magical way – is interesting, and the South African setting is unusual. The plot also has curious elements: pop music, 419 scams, extortion, murder... All in all a refreshing, unusual book.

Subjects

  • Fiction, fantasy, contemporary
  • Fiction, fantasy, urban
  • Johannesburg (south africa), fiction
  • Missing persons, fiction
  • Young women, fiction