I have to admit that The Twenty-Seventh City, Jonathan Franzen’s debut novel, was a book that I found difficult to get through.I picked it up the first time, read about a hundred and fifty pages, then put it down again. The debut novel of New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Franzen, The Twenty-Seventh City is “a startling, scathing first novel about American ambition, power, politics, money, corruption and apathy” (People). St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. The Twenty-Seventh City: A Novel - Ebook written by Jonathan Franzen. 25th Anniversary Edition Picador Modern Classics Published in 1988, Jonathan Franzen's The Twenty-Seventh City is the debut novel of a writer who would come to define our times. Toggle navigation United Nations. St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. It brings to life the economic, political, racial, and personal forces behind urban reform more vividly, and humorously, than any other contemporary fiction of … More By and About This Author. For that it is a master piece. The Twenty-Seventh City Jonathan Franzen, Author Avon Books $8.94 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-70840-6. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. ARTICLES. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read The Twenty-Seventh City: A Novel. You immediately recognize Franzen’s voice, his very special way of telling a story. 25th Anniversary Edition Picador Modern Classics Published in 1988, Jonathan Franzen's The Twenty-Seventh City is the debut novel of a writer who would come to define our times. By the author of the bestseller 'The Corrections' and the sensational 'Freedom', 'The Twenty-Seventh City' is a novel of intrigue, humour and fear. St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. Probst and Jammu are the opposing terms in this dialectic, which contrasts his rigid sense of … St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. The Twenty-Seventh City is a first novel. العربية; 中文; English; Français; Русский; Español; Download the Word Document So it is that The Twenty-Seventh City unfolds as a political novel of ideas, a "textbook dialectic" that pits "absolute freedom" against "absolute terror, the French Revolution à la Hegel" (p.198). 25th Anniversary Edition Picador Modern Classics Published in 1988, Jonathan Franzen's The Twenty-Seventh City is the debut novel of a writer who would come to define our times. It envisions a dystopic city, primarily populated by Asian immigrants, where police use violence to intimidate political opponents of the power-hungry police chief. For that it is a master piece. A year later, I picked it up again with greater determination, started over, and managed to finish it, in spurts, over the course of five months. Other articles where The Twenty-seventh City is discussed: Jonathan Franzen: Franzen based his debut novel, The Twenty-seventh City (1988), in a fictional St. Louis. St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. THE TWENTY-SEVENTH CITY is one of the most incisive and visionary novels about the strata of American society published in the past 15 years.