The 1994 Booker winner James Kelman (b. 1946) took seven years to write his last novel. It will take about the same amount of time for readers to understand what he is talking about. “The present text is a translation of the testimony given by the three. four or more people who reside in occupied territory or in a country subject to some form of military rule.” Bosnia, Zaire, Scotland, Russia, the USA - “terrortoria” can be anything... An Orwellian metaphor, written in the language of Andrei Platonov, brought to the extreme degree of collapse. The most mysterious book of the Scottish classic, summing up the entire 20th century, is for the first time in Russian.