What I’m Reading: “Zoo City” by Lauren Beukes

I’d heard so much about this book, which won the Arthur C Clarke Award for Science Fiction in 2011, that it is very nice to be able to get into at last.

And so far, at between a third to half the way through, I’m enjoying the premise, which is that people who fall by the wayside in terms of (mainly) “crime”, end up with an animal familiar by way of “punishment.” The South African setting is interesting, although as someone who has never been there I have no way of assessing authenticity—but th...