So cool to see Zoo City included in the Guardian’s list of top ten cybercrime novels. Dan Malakin, author of The Box, calls Zoo City a “subversive banger of a novel by South African genre-smasher Lauren Beukes.”
Rad to see it included among more straight realist fare!
“What better way to round off a cybercrime Top 10 than with this subversive banger of a novel by South African genre-smasher Lauren Beukes. Set in an alternative Johannesburg where animal familiars are attached to criminals to mark them, it tells the story Zinzi, a lost-item psychic and 419 scammer (think emails from purported princes) who gets sucked into a murder mystery with wide resonance.”
Awesome image of this super pretty edition of Zoo City taken by Eli @flyingletters! Thank you Eli!