![]() Strength, size and courage don't necessarily work in the mean streets of Beukes's urban South Africa. There is a bear, but he, or she, only turns up to get killed, in the novel's most atmospheric and spooky set-piece. Zinzi December's animal is a sloth, boyfriend BenoƮt harbours a mongoose other denizens of Zoo City (the run down area of Johannesburg which has become a ghetto for the "animalled") have attracted scorpions, sunbirds, vervet monkeys. ![]() Not so in Lauren Beukes's much-feted Zoo City, which has just won the Arthur C Clarke award. Something big, famous and charismatic, anyway. ![]() However, human nature being what it is, shamanic/pagan/wiccan types inhabiting globalised urban society tend to feel they've been chosen by an eagle, a wolf or a bear. ![]() I n pagan/wiccan/shamanic circles the world over, it is agreed that you don't choose your power animal, or familiar. ![]()
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