About the book: 2004 / One of the most popular novels by the famous Scot is a tragicomic family saga, full of grotesquery and warm irony, beginning with an explosion and ending with an exclamation mark. In between there is a filigree lace of intertwining stories, drinking and partying, and at the core of this lace is the mystery of the disappearance of the prodigal uncle, the author of the documentary bestseller “The Deccan Traps and Other Damn Little Places”».