Zoo City / Lauren Beukes :: Angry Robot Books

Zoo City / Lauren Beukes

“Down these mean streets a woman with a magic animal must go.
You’ll want to go there too. Lauren Beukes is Jeff Noon
crossed with Raymond Chandler. I loved it, it’s going to be huge.”
- Paul Cornell

“In Zoo City we have an unfamiliar land full of familiars, a broken Johannesburg
of the near future peopled with damaged wonders. Proving her debut novel was no fluke,
she writes better than I wish I could on my best day. If our words are bullets,
Lauren Beukes is a marksman in a world of drunken machine-gunners, firing her ideas
and images into us with a sly and deadly accuracy, wasting nothing, never missing.
I’ll follow her career as long as she’s willing to write and I’m able to read.”
- Bill Willingham, creator of Fables

Zinzi has a talent for finding lost things.