She’s been honoured in South Africa’s parliament and most recently won the Mbokondo Award from the Department of Arts and Culture, celebrating women in the arts for her work in the Creative Writing field. Her awards include the Arthur C Clarke Award, the prestigious University of Johannesburg prize, the August Derleth Prize, the Strand Critics Choice Award and the RT Thriller of the Year. Her books have been translated into 26 languages and have been optioned for film and TV. Lauren Beukes is an award-winning, best-selling novelist who also writes screenplays, TV shows, comics and journalism.
Taking hedonistic trends in society to their ultimate conclusions, this tale paints anything but a forecasted utopia, satirically undermining the reified idea of progress as society's white knight. On a collision course that will rewire their lives, this story crackles with bold and infectious ideas, connecting a ruthless corporate-apartheid government with video games, biotech attack dogs, slippery online identities, a township soccer school, shocking cell phones, addictive branding, and genetically modified art. Kendra, an art-school dropout, brands herself for a nanotech marketing program Lerato, an ambitious AIDS baby, plots to defect from her corporate employers Tendeka, a hot-headed activist, is becoming increasingly rabid and Toby, a roguish blogger, discovers that the video games he plays for cash are much more than they seem. A frighteningly persuasive, high-tech fable, this novel follows the lives of four narrators living in an alternative futuristic Cape Town, South Africa.
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