The Coup
320 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 1978
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This edition
ISBN: 9780449242599
Format: Mass market paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Fawcett
Publication date: 12 March 1980
Description
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, 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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
