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Name: Zoo City
Author: Lauren Beukes
Year: 2010
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Popularity: 3.1
Genres/categories: Fantasy, Award winners, Science fiction, Mystery
Culture: Africa

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Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award for best Sci-Fi novel first published in the UK in 2011.
Winner of the Tähtivaeltaja award in 2017.

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 paycheck, she's forced to take on her least favourite kind of job - missing persons.

Being hired by 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 and their animal companions live in the shadow of hell's undertow.

Instead, it catapults Zinzi deeper into the maw of a city twisted by crime and magic, where she'll be forced to confront the dark secrets of former lives - including her own.
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