The Coup - US Edition Aniruddha Bahal Reunited for the summer

Reunited for the summer

but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe

bells summon nuns and clerics to prayer at regular intervals

is as inevitable as it is unexpected

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