Best Books of the Year 2024

We are excited to announce that Agustín Fernández Mallo’s  Atom Heart Mother was included in some of the top publications’ Best Books of 2024 list, among them Babelia (El País), Forbes, La Lectura, El Confidencial, Artículo 14, Infobae, El Cultural.

The selection is motivated as follows:

“There is something in intimate books that goes beyond prose and structure and points to tone, to a certain presence of truth. I found this same happy presence of truth in Atom Heart Mother (…)”
El Confidencial

“Out of the distress of his father’s death comes Atom Heart Mother, a novel of mourning and discovery that reflects on the purpose of death, what identity and memory are, and the inheritance we receive from our ancestors.”
La Lectura

“‘Memory is either literature, or it isn’t’, affirms the author. And this is it, a profound, beautiful, analytical biographical novel, full of details… Mallo uses memories of his father to craft a universal story that is near and true.”
Forbes

“With his unique style, Fernández Mallo converts this reflection on loss and discovery into a literary artefact that transcends genres, integrating science, emotion and philosophy in order to invite us to look beyond what is evident and understand better who we are.”
Artículo 14

“Atom Heart Mother is a novel in the form of a memoir in which he remembers his dead father, with whom he maintained a relationship that was as profound as it was distant.”
El Cultural

“It is an investigation of how we construct our identity through a memory that operates with both reminiscence and fiction.”
Babelia (El País)

“The novel (…) not only demonstrates the author’s ability to blur the boundaries between genres, it also shows his capacity to transform an intimate anecdote into a collective reflection about how we remember and reinterpret the past.”
Infobae

GQ Mexico’s “The Best Books of 2024, According to Experts”

W Magazine’s Ten books of 2024 that explore the richness of literary fusion to show the human condition

Furthermore, Fernández Mallo was included in the following list:

El País’s List of Eight Books to Reflect on Family Bonds