The Coup

ISBN: 9780394502687

作者: John Updike

出版社: Alfred A. Knopf

出版年: 1978-11

页数: 320

定价: GBP 22.46

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

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 Ellello?. (“A leader,” writes Colonel Ellello?, “is one who, out of madness or goodness, takes upon himself the woe of a people. There are few men so foolish.”) Colonel Ellello? 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 incursionconstitute the events of the novel. Colonel Ellello? 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.