Audiobook review: Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
WHAT: Zoo City by Lauren Beukes narrated by Justine Eyre from Angry Robot on Brilliance Audio:
HOW: Bought a-la-carte from Audible.com
WHY: Jeff VanderMeer’s NY Times review; Arthur C. Clarke Award; Kitschies Red Tentacle Award; shortlisted for BSFA; World Fantasy Award nomination; I’m publishing an interview of Beukes in Bull Spec #7; and after I listened to the sample I decided not to wait for the CD review copy set to jump into this discount-priced, full-valued audiobook.
THE STORY: Zinzi December is living in “Zoo City” — a Joburg (Johannesburg, South Africa) ghetto — so named because its residents are “animaled”. In Beukes’s only slightly alternate fantasy reality to our own, those who are guilty of murder are attached to a familiar (a physical spirit animal) which is a literal monkey on their backs. In Zinzi’s case this animal is a sloth. In her boyfriend Benoit’s, it’s a mongoose. Some murderers get butterflies. Others get goldfish. Others get wolves. These things happen.
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