Updike John. The Coup

John Updike is one of America's most versatile men of letters. His novel The Coup, written in 1978, is a lauded novel about an African dictatorship.
In the Coup, John Updike dissects a modern African state called Kush. Narrated tongue-in-cheek by Kush's exiled president, Colonel Felix Ellellou, Updike proves he is an equal opportunity employer when it comes to slicing up bunkum, whether black or white, first world or third.