Jonathan Franzen

The Twenty-Seventh City

S. Jammu, a young, ambitious Indian woman, is sworn in as police chief of St. Louis where the acts of private citizens are monitored and the actions of Martin Probst and his family threatened to destroy her plan

A Novel

Colton Ray

Liz Prinz

A riveting work of suspense, an eerie fable of political life, a love story - this first novel by Jonathan Franzen, published to wide acclaim in 1988, is a sweeping and imaginative look at America in the twentieth century.

Benjamin Erwin

Dying St. Louis is turned inside-out by the appointment of a charismatic young woman from Bombay as police chief, an act which launches the city's prominent citizens into political conspiracy. Franzen's first novel is already a classic of contemporary fiction.

The Twenty-Seventh City

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