La genealogía del abandono

Iván Gastañaga was born in Moscow in 1990, in the final days of the Soviet Union. A year later, thanks to the intervention of a Spanish correspondent stationed in Russia, he became the first Soviet child adopted by a Spanish family. He grew up in Cantabria surrounded by love, but also haunted by a persistent question: Who were his biological parents? Why had they decided to abandon him? This unease led him to embark on a quest to uncover his roots, a journey that lasted more than a decade and took him from Spain to Moscow, by way of Jerusalem and Yerevan. Through forgotten archives, unexpected encounters, and a complex genealogical reconstruction, Gastañaga uncovers a recurring pattern running through several generations of his family history: abandonment and displacement. The Genealogy of Abandonment is the story of this search, but also a reflection on identity and belonging. With honesty and a powerful life force, Iván Gastañaga transforms his personal experience into a profoundly human testimony about the different forms of family and the possibility of rebuilding oneself without giving up any part of oneself.