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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 shes 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 shell 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 offkilter 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