The Coup - US Edition Aniruddha Bahal living Saints visit the towns

living Saints visit the towns to exact the Saviours' tithe from all those coming of age - a tithe often paid in blood

In December

and the bonds of blood and fate that connect them all

Delving deep into the city's crooked alleyways

The Coup - US Edition Aniruddha Bahal living Saints visit the townsJohn 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