The Coup - US Edition Aniruddha Bahal Fleeing from an Anti-Tractionist sect

Fleeing from an Anti-Tractionist sect

Delving deep into the city's crooked alleyways

Henry VIII has proclaimed himself Supreme Head of the Church and the country is waking up to savage new laws

bells summon nuns and clerics to prayer at regular intervals

The Coup - US Edition Aniruddha Bahal Fleeing from an Anti-Tractionist sectJohn 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