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Zoo City de Lauren Beukes

Zoo City

Autor Lauren Beukes
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 aug 2016

A new edition of Lauren Beukes's Arthur C Clarke Award-winning novel set in a world where murderers and other criminals acquire magical animals that are mystically bonded to them.

"Beukes's energetic noir phantasmagoria, the winner of this year's Arthur C. Clarke Award, crackles with original ideas ... Beukes skillfully employs all the twists of first-rate noir." -Jeff VanderMeer, The New York Times Book Review, bestselling author of the Area X Trilogy

Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit, and a talent for finding lost things. When a little old lady turns up dead and the cops confiscate her last paycheck, Zinzi's forced to take on her least favorite 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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780316267922
ISBN-10: 0316267929
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 141 x 208 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company

Notă biografică

Lauren Beukes writes novels, comics and screeplays. She's the author of the critically-acclaimed Broken Monsters, the international best-seller, The Shining Girls, and the high-tech fable Moxyland. She worked as a journalist and as a show runner on one of South Africa's biggest animated TV shows, directed an award-winning documentary and wrote the New York Times best-selling graphic novel, Fairest: The Hidden Kingdom. She lives in Cape Town, South Africa.

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[Beukes] brings a secret tenderness and humanity to her off-kilter portrait of the here and now
Lauren Beukes is very, *very* good. It feels effortless. Utterly accomplished
A fabulous outing from an extremely promising writer ... [It] has so much fabulous wordplay, imaginative settings and scenarios, and such a dark and cynical heart that I was totally riveted by it
Beukes's energetic noir phantasmagoria ... crackles with original ideas ... Beukes skilfully employs all the twists of first-rate noir ... powerful indeed
Beukes delivers a thrill ride that gleefully merges narrative styles and tropes, almost single-handedly pulling the "urban fantasy" subgenre back towards its groundbreaking roots
Energetic and imaginative ... Packed with colour, dark humour and thought-provoking ideas, Zoo City is an absolute must for anyone with a taste for the wilder edges of the genre
Original and unputdownable
An unpredictable and helluva awesome read
Lauren Beukes is Jeff Noon crossed with Raymond Chandler. I loved it, it's going to be huge
I couldn't put this down. It's weird, thrilling, funny... filled with sleazy characters and lots of bad attitude
An unfamiliar land full of familiars, a broken Johannesburg peopled with damaged wonders... If our words are bullets, Lauren Beukes is a marksman in a world of drunken machine-gunners
Zoo City is pure originality ... a book that had me reading it revelling in Beukes' magical way with words
At times the witty and lyrical prose is sheer magic, the story captivating and the characters exotic, cruel and beautiful while the backdrop of Johannesburg seethes with hidden, lurking dangers around every corner, Zoo City is quite simply captivating