The Coup - US Edition Aniruddha Bahal Reunited for the summer

Reunited for the summer

In December

and the bonds of blood and fate that connect them all

His restlessness is legendary

The Coup - US Edition Aniruddha Bahal Reunited for the summerJohn Updike's new novel describes violent events in the imaginary African nation of Kush a large, landlocked, drought ridden, sub Saharan country led by Colonel Hakim Flix Ellello. Colonel Ellello has four wives, a silver Mercedes, and a fanatic aversioncultural, ideological, and personalto the United States. But the U. S. keeps creeping into Kush, and the repercussions of this incursion constitute the events of the novel. The time of the novel is