By Jonathan Franzen
St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly death river urban until eventually it hires a brand new police leader: a charismatic younger lady from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. No faster has Jammu been put in, although, than the city's top electorate develop into embroiled in an all-pervasive political conspiracy. A vintage of latest fiction, The Twenty-Seventh City indicates us a standard city grew to become within out, and the yank Dream unraveling into terror and darkish comedy.
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