Lost Luggage

Resumen del libro

Christof, Christophe, Christopher and Cristofol are four brothers - sons of the same father and four very different mothers, yet none of them knows of the others' existence. They live in Frankfurt, Paris, London and Barcelona. Their father, Gabriel Delacruz - a truck driver - abandoned them when they were little and has never been heard from again. Then one day, Cristofol is contacted by the police: his father is officially a missing person. This fact leads him to discover that he has three half-brothers, and the four young men come together for the first time. Two decades have passed since their father last saw any of them. They barely remember what he was like, but they decide to look for him to resolve their doubts. Why did he abandon them? Why do all four have the same name? Did he intend for them to meet? Divided by geography yet united by blood, the Cristobales set out on a quest that is at once painful, hilarious and extraordinary. They discover a man who during thirty years of driving was able to escape the darkness of Franco's Spain and to explore a luminous Europe, a journey that, with the birth of his sons, both opened and broke his heart.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;strong Jordi Puntíx{0026}lt;/strong (Manlleu, 1967) es autor de tres volúmenes de relatos: x{0026}lt;em Piel de armadillox{0026}lt;/em (1998), x{0026}lt;em Animales tristesx{0026}lt;/em (2002) y x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Esto no es Américax{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong (2017), editado por Anagrama. En 2010 publicó su primera novela, x{0026}lt;em Maletas perdidasx{0026}lt;/em , que tuvo una extraordinaria acogida tanto en catalán como en castellano, ganó los premios Lletra dx{0026} x02019;Or, Llibreter y Nacional de la Crítica y se tradujo a dieciocho idiomas. También es autor de la ficción autobiográfica x{0026}lt;em Los castellanosx{0026}lt;/em (2011) y de x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Todo Messi y másx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong (2023), publicada en Anagrama, un retrato sentimental y literario del futbolista. En 2014 obtuvo la prestigiosa beca del Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers de la Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York, que le permitió investigar durante un año y es el punto de partida de x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Confetix{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , Premio Sant Jordi de Novela 2023. Es colaborador habitual de x{0026}lt;em El Periódicox{0026}lt;/em , entre otros medios escritos y radiofónicos.x{0026}lt;/p