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Publication year 2010
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Emotions/Behavior: Guilt
Tags Fantasy, Science-Fiction / Dystopian Fiction, Mystery / Crime Fiction
Zoo City is a 2010 fantasy/science fiction novel by Lauren Beukes; it won the 2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award. In an alternate version of Johannesburg, South Africa, people who have committed serious crimes find themselves attached to animal familiars that grant them magical abilities—and mark their criminality for all to see. First-person narrator Zinzi December is accompanied by a Sloth. She uses her shavi (magical power) to locate lost things. Zinzi’s narration alternates with textual... Read Zoo City Summary