Zoo City: The gripping and original WINNER of the 2011 Arthur C Clarke award
Autor Lauren Beukesen Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 noi 2018
Lauren Beukes' tale of a young woman trapped in a brutal city but looking for a way out . . .
'A major, major talent'George R. R. Martin
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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 paycheque, 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 pop star should be her ticket out of Zoo City, the festering slum where the criminal underclass and their animal companions reside.
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.
Look out for AFTERLAND, the new novel by Lauren Beukes
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'Beukes is very *very* good. It feels effortless, utterly accomplished'William Gibson
'Beukes brings a secret tenderness and humanity to her off-kilter portrait of the here and now'Guardian
'Exquisitely paced and impeccably controlled. An enormously satisfying novel'New York Times Book Review
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781405924054
ISBN-10: 1405924055
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1405924055
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Lauren
Beukes
is
the
award-winning
and
internationally
best-selling
South
African
author
ofThe
Shining
Girls,
Zoo
CityandBroken
Monsters,
among
other
works.
Her
novels
have
been
published
in
24
countries
and
are
being
adapted
for
film
and
TV.
She's
also
a
screenwriter,
comics
writer
journalist
and
award-winning
documentary
maker.
She
lives
in
Cape
Town,
South
Africa
with
her
daughter
and
two
troublesome
cats.
Recenzii
[Beukes]brings
a
secret
tenderness
and
humanityto
her
off-kilter
portrait
of
the
here
and
now
Lauren Beukes isvery, *very* good. It feelseffortless.Utterly accomplished
A fabulous outing from an extremely promising writer... [It] hasso much fabulous wordplay,imaginativesettings and scenarios, and such a dark and cynical heart thatI was totally riveted by it
Beukes's energetic noir phantasmagoria ...crackles with original ideas... Beukes skilfully employs all the twists offirst-rate noir...powerful indeed
Beukes deliversa thrill ridethat 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 Cityisan absolute mustfor anyone with a taste for the wilder edges of the genre
Originalandunputdownable
Anunpredictable 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 Cityispure originality... a book that had me reading it revelling in Beukes' magical way with words
At times the witty and lyrical prose issheer magic, the storycaptivatingand the characters exotic, cruel andbeautifulwhile the backdrop of Johannesburg seethes with hidden, lurking dangers around every corner,Zoo Cityis quite simply captivating
Lauren Beukes isvery, *very* good. It feelseffortless.Utterly accomplished
A fabulous outing from an extremely promising writer... [It] hasso much fabulous wordplay,imaginativesettings and scenarios, and such a dark and cynical heart thatI was totally riveted by it
Beukes's energetic noir phantasmagoria ...crackles with original ideas... Beukes skilfully employs all the twists offirst-rate noir...powerful indeed
Beukes deliversa thrill ridethat 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 Cityisan absolute mustfor anyone with a taste for the wilder edges of the genre
Originalandunputdownable
Anunpredictable 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 Cityispure originality... a book that had me reading it revelling in Beukes' magical way with words
At times the witty and lyrical prose issheer magic, the storycaptivatingand the characters exotic, cruel andbeautifulwhile the backdrop of Johannesburg seethes with hidden, lurking dangers around every corner,Zoo Cityis quite simply captivating