In a modern day Johannesburg the "Animalled" are treated as second class citizens, and a form of segregation that has created a "Zoo City" where the outcasts live on the edge of society. This animal is so closely linked that if the creature dies, then they die too, in a suitably nasty fashion. Their past transgression manifest as a physical reminder. Those who have committed the crime of murder, or otherwise killed someone awoke one day to find themselves in the company of a familiar / spirit guide who is bound to them in spirit and soul. Zinzi December is a woman with a gift, and perhaps a curse - over ten years ago a remarkable and disturbing event changed the lives of many, and the world in general. Zoo City is an Urban fantasy novel by the South African author Lauren Beukes.
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