Best Books of the Year 2024 – more nominations

We are proud to announce that Agustín Fernández Mallo’s Atom Heart Mother has been included in more lists featuring the Best Books of 2024, among them La Razón, Ahora Qué Leo (La Sexta), Cadena Ser, Rockdelux and Uppers.

This is what critics had to say:

“One of the great names of our novel has reflected on the father in this book where memory intersects with the gears of the novel.”
La Razón

“This is a novel written, the way few novels are written: facing the loss and recounting it a posteriori but knowing that, by reliving it, it brings back a person who ended his days with a cognitive illness that often prevented him from knowing who he was.”
Ahora Qué Leo (La Sexta)

“The year has left us with good books, such as Atom Heart Mother by Agustín Fernández Mallo (…)”
Cadena Ser

Rockdelux has included Atom Heart Mother in its list of the 25 Best Books of 2024.

“The materials of Atom Heart Mother are those that almost all of us will have at hand at some point: objects, old papers, digital archives, stubbornly sentimental memorabilia. What Fernández Mallo does with them is both a personal homage as well as a portrait of a Spanish family straddling two centuries.”
Uppers, “Five Books of 2024 to Help You Face 2025”