The prize-winning debut novel from a major new talent in Catalan
literature--the 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 Cristòfol 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 four different cities:
Frankfurt, Paris, London, and Barcelona. Unbeknownst to them, they have
one thing in common: Gabriel Delacruz--a truck driver--abandoned them
when they were little and they never heard from him again.
Then one day, Cristòfol 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 Franco's Spain and to explore a luminous Europe, a journey
that, with the birth of his sons, both opened and broke his heart.
