Zoo city by lauren beukes5/18/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But when she takes on a job from a music producer to find a missing girl, things get sticky. And that's how she survives: finding things for people for a modest fee. Zinzi can see the threads that connect people to their lost things. Some can create protective charms while others can dampen magical fields. Every aposymbiot is gifted with an ability. ![]() But there's also the Undertow - a mysterious force that some claim is Hell reaching out for the damned souls of aposymbiots like Zinzi. Mark of her crime in the form of a semi-intelligent animal - in her case, it's a sloth. Zoo City is concerned with Zinzi December, a former convict who, like many others, must bear the You might even call it a brilliant example of worldbuilding from outside of the traditional modern fantasy genre. It is a gloriously complicated novel with equally complicated characters. On the one hand it is a noir murder mystery with a semi-New Weird slant, but on the other it is a novel about refugees, the music industry, South Africa, guilt, revenge, drugs, prejudice, poverty, and so much more. When my friend and I asked Lauren Beukes to describe Zoo City, she understandably remarked that the book is rather difficult to explain. ![]()
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