{"product_id":"9781405924054","title":"Zoo City : The gripping and original WINNER of the 2011 Arthur C Clarke award","description":"\u003cp\u003eFROM THE AUTHOR BEHIND BRAND NEW APPLE TV HIT SHINING GIRLS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE 2011 ARTHUR C CLARKE AWARD\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A major, major talent' GEORGE R.R. MARTIN\n\u003cbr\u003e_______\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eZinzi 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInstead 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.\n\u003cbr\u003e_______\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Beukes is very *very* good. It feels effortless, utterly accomplished' William Gibson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Beukes brings a secret tenderness and humanity to her off-kilter portrait of the here and now' Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Exquisitely paced and impeccably controlled. An enormously satisfying novel' New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49643479138552,"sku":"EB_LI0810_E21-03_SYDNEY","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9781405924054-1.jpg?v=1783690645","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/products\/9781405924054","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}