Manual of lost Objects

What do cockroaches, umbrellas, and unsaid thoughts have in common? In Manual of Lost Objects (and Other Melancholies), they all speak—sometimes metaphorically, sometimes literally.

This collection of interlinked stories explores a surreal urban world where the absurd becomes sacred and the forgotten becomes central. A man believes Kafka lives inside a cockroach that smokes. Another obsessively searches for his lost umbrella, "Negrito," through increasingly metaphysical alleys. In a forgotten passageway, unspoken thoughts float like vapor, waiting to be noticed—or to take form.

Blending magical realism, satire, philosophical fable, and metafiction, Gabriel Ibarroa delivers a tender, sharp, and darkly humorous portrait of contemporary solitude. With echoes of Borges, Kafka, and Calvino, this book is for readers who love literature that asks big questions through strange encounters and poetic absurdities.

If youve ever talked to trash, felt nostalgic for an object you barely knew, or suspected your story was being written by someone else... this book was already waiting for you.