by Lauren Beukes · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781405924054
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«Zoo City» is the urban fantasy and science fiction novel by Lauren Beukes, published by Penguin Books in paperback (384 pages, in English).
In Johannesburg, Zoo City is a slum where criminals live alongside animal companions. Zinzi December, who carries a sloth on her back, has a talent for finding lost things. Hired by Odi Huron to locate Songweza, a pop star, she ends up in a plot of crime and magic that forces her to confront her past.
Originally published in 2010, it won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2011 and was nominated for the World Fantasy Award and the British Science Fiction Association Award.
For readers of urban fantasy and science fiction who appreciate protagonists with a murky past and an African setting.
Lauren Beukes is a South African novelist, short story writer, journalist and television scriptwriter.
