One Book, One DVD: Week 2

These are my purchases for week 2 of my challenge.

The Twenty-Seventh City (Jonathan Franzen): 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. No sooner has Jammu been installed, though, than the city's leading citizens become embroiled in an all-pervasive political conspiracy. Seen by many as a classic of contemporary fiction, The Twenty-Seventh City shows us an ordinary metropolis turned inside out, and reveals today's American Dream unraveling into terror and dark comedy.

Pan's Labyrinth: In 1944 fascist Spain, a girl, fascinated with fairy-tales, is sent along with her pregnant mother to live with her new stepfather, a ruthless captain of the Spanish army. During the night, she meets a fairy who takes her to an old faun in the center of the labyrinth. He tells her she's a princess, but must prove her royalty by surviving three gruesome tasks. If she fails, she will never prove herself to be the the true princess and will never see her real father, the king, again.