The Coup
John UpdikeThe 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, takes upon himself the woe of a people. There are few men so foolish.") Colonel Ellelloû has four wives, a silver Mercedes, and a fanatic aversion--cultural, ideological, and personal--to the United States. But the U.S. keeps creeping into Kush, and the repercussions of this incursion constitute the events of the novel. Colonel Ellelloû tells his own story--always elegantly, and often in the third person--from an undisclosed location in the South of France.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
سب زمرہ:
سال:
2012
ناشر کتب:
Random House Publishing Group
زبان:
english
ISBN 10:
0679645713
ISBN 13:
9780679645719
فائل:
EPUB, 1.99 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2012