Lost Luggage : A Novel

The prize-winning debut novel from a major new talent in Catalan literaturethe story of four half-brothers who only discover the others existence when the father who abandoned them all is reported missing.

Christof, Christophe, Christopher, and Cristfol are four brotherssons of the same father and four very different mothersyet none of them knows of the others existence. They live in four different cities: Frankfurt, Paris, London, and Barcelona. Unbeknownst to them, they have one thing in common: Gabriel Delacruza truck driverabandoned them when they were little and they never heard from him again.

Then one day, Cristfol 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 Christophers 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 Francos Spain and to explore a luminous Europe, a journey that, with the birth of his sons, both opened and broke his heart.