"An ingenious creation... alert to the sheer untidiness of life." --Colm Toibin "Inventive, absorbing and beautifully written." --Daily Mail "An outstanding read." --Daily Express "An astonishing literary artefact. Marvellous." --El Mundo "An utterly absorbing tale of family, friendship, love and loss" --Easy Living "Punti is a sprightly writer, delighting in taking us down byways and through backwaters as the novel circles Gabriel's disappearance." - Financial Times "More than once it feels as though you could be in a Barcelona bar, listening to a friend indulge in a series of Rioja-fuelled anecdotes" - The Times "It's the combination of straight-down-the-line storytelling with Jordi's ingenious inflections in the language and structure that make Lost Luggage feel so rebellious." --Dazed&Confused

Jordi Punti was born near Barcelona, Spain in 1967 and is a writer, translator and a regular contributor to the Spanish and Catalan press. Considered one of the most promising new voices of contemporary Catalan literature, in 1998 he published his first book of short stories, Pell d'armadillo which won the Serra d'Or Critics' Prize. Lost Luggage is his first novel.