Much anticipated Zoo City launches

27 May 2010, Posted by Cape Town Girl in BFFs, CTG recommends, Parties, book club, cape town, music, 1 Comments

We’ve been waiting with baited breath for SA literary cool kid Lauren Beukes to launch her follow-up to Moxyland, Zoo City, and on Tuesday it finally happened! The Book Lounge was packed for the event, people were literally squeezing into the venue and passive-aggressively jostling for space alongside the black zoo biscuits and the Witchdoctor popcorn.

Lauren and her very proud Dad

Lauren was interviewed by another local lit hipster Sarah Lotz (who wrote Exhibit A, Pompidou Posse) which was a nice touch to the usual reading proceedings. I can’t wait to get into Zoo City. Will have to turn the pages VERY CAREFULLY so can preserve pristine nature of my signed first edition.

Priceless. If you're wondering about the Kendra/Lerato reference, you clearly have not read Moxyland. And yes, I need to 'finish my fucking book'. Sigh. Thanks Lauren! x

Curious? Zoo City is set in Joburg. It’s about a young girl with a sloth on her back and murder in her past. And if you’re not convinced yet, THE William Gibson had this to say about it:

“Lauren Beukes is very, *very& good… it feels effortless, utterly accomplished”

Ja – can you handle! I’ll be starting it this evening. Read more on the launch here. You can buy the book in all bookstores. If you turn to the back page you’ll see that it also comes with an album and instructions on how to download it. Freaking awesome! Go get it!