Zoo City (Second Hand Book)

Author: Lauren Beukes
Title: Zoo City
Format: Softcover Book
Language: English
Genre: Urban Fantasy / Crime / Speculative Fiction
Awards: Arthur C. Clarke Award Winner
ISBN: 9781770098183

Zoo City is a dark, inventive urban fantasy set in an alternate Johannesburg where criminals are magically bonded to animal familiars. Gritty, stylish, and sharply original, the novel blends noir detective fiction with speculative elements rooted in contemporary South Africa.

Book Overview

Zinzi December has a Sloth on her back, a shady online scam habit, and a talent for finding lost things. In a city where guilt manifests as animal companions, she survives on the margins of Zoo City — a decaying inner-city enclave for the magically marked.

When a routine missing-persons job pulls her into the orbit of a powerful music producer, Zinzi is dragged deep into a criminal underworld where crime, magic, and corruption intertwine. What begins as a way out soon becomes a dangerous descent into the darkest corners of the city — and her own past.

Stylish, unsettling, and socially incisive, Zoo City reimagines noir tropes through a distinctly African urban lens.

Condition

Second Hand – Good.

• General shelf and reading wear visible
• Light scuffing to cover, especially near edges
• Corners slightly rounded from handling
• Pages clean, intact, and readable
• Binding secure

Additional Information

• Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award
• Set in an alternate Johannesburg
• Blends crime noir with urban fantasy
• Highly regarded modern South African speculative fiction