The Coup - US Edition Aniruddha Bahal is as inevitable as it

is as inevitable as it is unexpected

Delving deep into the city's crooked alleyways

bells summon nuns and clerics to prayer at regular intervals

His restlessness is legendary

it’s a clever book… claustrophobic

The Coup - US Edition Aniruddha Bahal is as inevitable as itJohn 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