Carlota Gurt – författare

Mei is a forty-two year-old editor living in Barcelona. After years of unsuccessfully trying to become pregnant, and having grown apart from her husband, she decides to escape her crude reality when she’s made redundant from her job at a publishing house. When she moves to the cottage where she grew up, hidden in a remote forest of Catalunya, she believes this to be the perfect opportunity to finish the novel she’s been obsessing over. But as she begins writing, or trying to, tragedy hits her and solitude possesses her, forcing her to face her past, an unsolicited present and a future that is adrift. As Mei’s chance encounters and new relationships with figures from her childhood seem to keep her grounded, the forest and its inhabitants take over her as she fights to finish her novel and attempt to escape solitude unscathed.

Teoria dels forats es la historia del Klaus i el seu pare, que treballa per l'ajuntament en tota mena de feines, entre elles, arreglar els sots dels camins. Un mati apareix un forat immens que no podran tapar ni amb quinze sacs de terra. Tots dos s'hi endinsaran per mirar de treure'n l'entrellat. Teoria dels forats es l'aventura d'un fill fantasios i un pare que toca massa de peus a terra; una aventura que els ensenya que les vides i les persones son prodigiosament imperfectes. Perque com diu la primera frase del llibre: Res no existiria sense forats. Escrita en el caracteristic estil directe i viu de l'autora, la novel*la es plena d'imatges i d'una intel*ligencia i un sentit de l'humor desbordants.