The Coup - US Edition Aniruddha Bahal His restlessness is legendary

His restlessness is legendary

Fleeing from an Anti-Tractionist sect

is as inevitable as it is unexpected

Reunited for the summer

Delving deep into the city's crooked alleyways

The Coup - US Edition Aniruddha Bahal His restlessness is legendaryJohn 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