Lost luggage - Jordi Punt

In a heartbreaking, hilarious and extraordinary journey, four brothers piece together their father's life. They discover a man whom thirty years of driving enabled to escape the darkness of Franco's Spain and to explore a luminous Europe, a journey that both opened and broke his heart

Jordi Punti was born in Manlleu, near Barcelona, and is a fiction writer and regular contributor to the Spanish and Catalan press. He has won numerous literary awards and his works have been translated into more than 15 languages. His first novel to be translated into English, Lost Luggage (Short Books), was released in 2013, and his new collection of short stories, This is Not America, will be published in the US in 2019.

A book as extraordinary as it is memorable. Jordi Punti already belongs to the noble tradition of the great storytellers .

A conjuring trick. Incomparible literature.
El Pais

Lost Luggage is an astonishing literary artefact. Marvellous.
El Mundo

The best contemporary prose available.
El Periodico

Pure life, intense and passionate. A thorough and precise creation, very near perfection - one can only surrender to the utter force of the story.
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