Com unes vacances

Com unes vacances / Like a Holiday

Novel , 1998

Edicions 62

Pages: 269

Glenda, a psychiatrist dealing with a mid-career crisis, and Poltern Mac, a musician who is a teacher by profession, are two individuals clearly out of sync with the modern world, but who represent the contradictions and absurdities facing contemporary society, and they seem destined to meet up. In a desperate attempt to revive her passion for her work, Gloria takes a sabbatical year and goes in search of the patient who will restore her professional purpose. Poltern, on the other hand, begins to suffer the initial symptoms of a strange, unbearable phobia of repetitions, that seems to have no cure and may sentence him to a life of absolute isolation. Luckily, their fates cross on Polter’s eccentric family farm. Together, they set out on an unconventional course of therapy, which in a tragicomical way, highlights first the issues caused by a normality that is imposed and finally immerses the reader in a moving story of love.