The Coup: A Novel by John Updike

The Coup: A Novel

John Updike

320 pages first pub 1978 (editions)

fiction literary reflective sad medium-paced
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The Coup describes violent events in the imaginary African nation of Kush, a large, landlocked, drought-ridden, sub-Saharan country led by Colonel Hakim Félix Ellelloû. (“A leader,” writes Colonel Ellelloû, “is one who, out of madness or goodness,...

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