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Zoo city

Beukes, Lauren (author.).

Summary: "Zinzi has a talent for finding lost things. To save herself, she has to find the hardest thing of all - the truth. Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit and a talent for finding lost things. But when a client turns up dead and the cops confiscate her last paycheck, she's forced to take on her least favourite kind of job - missing persons. Being hired by famously reclusive music producer Odi Huron to find a teenybop pop star should be her ticket out of Zoo City, the festering slum where the criminal underclass, marked by their animals, live in the shadow of the undertow. Instead, it catapults Zinzi deeper into the underbelly of a city twisted by crime and magic, where she'll be forced to confront the dark secrets of former lives - including her own. Set in a wildly re-imagined Johannesburg, it swirls refugees, crime, the music industry, African magic and the nature of sin together into a heady brew"--Bookseller's website.

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  • ISBN: 9780316269353
  • ISBN: 0316269352
  • ISBN: 9780316267939
  • ISBN: 0316267937
  • ISBN: 9780316267922
  • ISBN: 0316267929
  • Physical Description: remote
    1 online resource (373 pages)
  • Edition: First Mulholland Books paperback edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Mulholland Books/ Little, Brown and Company, 2016.

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"Originally published in hardcover by Angry Robot, 2010"--Title page verso.
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Subject: Missing persons Investigation Fiction
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Magic Africa Fiction
South African fiction (English)
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Missing persons Investigation
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South African fiction (English)
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Genre: Fantasy fiction.
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Lauren Beukes writes novels, comics and screeplays. She's the author of the critically-acclaimed international bestseller Broken Monsters; The Shining Girls, about a time traveling serial killer; Zoo City, a phantasmagorical Joburg noir and winner of the 2011 Arthur C Clarke Award; and the neo-political thriller Moxyland. She worked as a journalist and as show runner on one of the South Africa's biggest animated TV shows, directed an award-winning documentary, and wrote the New York Times bestselling graphic novel, Fairest: The Hidden Kingdom. She lives in Cape Town, South Africa.

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