»Among the 20 best books of the year published up to June 2024, from Leila Guerriero to the ‘Blackwater’ saga, from Paul Auster to Richard Ford.«
Infobae

»Fernández Mallo makes a journey to the hidden face of his father and to the inconceivable areas of himself, by means of an extraordinary story in which action thinks and thought acts.«
Juan José Millás

»Only with Fernández Mallo’s emotional irreverence and intelligence could anyone write something so original and dazzling about love and family.«
Manuel Jabois

»As moving as it is precise, this novel with an atomic heart reveals the moment when memory is transfigured into fiction.«
Fernando León de Aranoa

»A beautiful tribute to an optimistic, rational and dreamy father. After reading it, we are left with the pleasing aftertaste of having met its protagonist and a narrator who knows how to tell a story with intelligence, precision and beauty.«
Héctor Abad Faciolince

»From the loss of his father’s memory, the author builds a dazzling monument to love, devoid of traps and sentimental shortcuts. The indisputable consecration of Agustín Fernández Mallo.«
Kiko Matamoros

»A fascinating novel about the absences that mark us, made from memory, identity, and mourning. A unique writer.«
María Sánchez

»In literature it is easier to kill the father than to save him, as Fernández Mallo does in this book in which he goes to the USA in search of his memories and returns as if he were coming back from mythological Greece: with Medusa’s head in his hand. Have someone by your side to revive you when you finish it, because this work will hypnotise you.«
Benjamín Prado

»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

»In this book, from start to finish, nothing is as it seems. Themes such as the identity of parents, omissions and the twists and turns of family stories, memory and belonging are very present. Also the care during the last stage of life, very different from that required by a baby or a child, as these pages remind us.«
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

»In this book, a mixture of literary genres and diverse emotions, he traces his family’s history (…) Illuminated by this family journey we encounter the history of Spain, in both wider events and the everyday life of homes like his own, while portraying the father-and-son relationships of a generation.«
GQ Mexico

»Readers of all kinds will find lasting meaning within these pages. It’s a pure joy, a text that reminded our committee why we read and what marvelous discoveries are at our fingertips in the book trade.«
Jury, Cercador Prize 2024

»The Book of All Loves is a novel that is at the same time an essay, an ode and a gospel. Because to write is to connect two lovers with a world that is switched off and another that is switched on; to use the economy of abundance to talk about love, to use the profound time of geology to explain why certain people never completely leave our lives.«
ABC

»A fascinating novel that radically opts for hope in the face of the apocalyptic dystopia that seems to haunt us in recent times.«
El Economista

»The closest thing, in literature, to putting on virtual reality glasses is reading Agustín Fernández Mallo.«
La Vanguardia

»The Book of All Loves is therefore a profoundly poetic novel about money, but above all about language as a transformative tool, because through its use, by renaming things, it is possible to “completely rethink the drive for love and create a love of what is truly accessible.”«
El Mundo

»Fernández Mallo’s narrative is absolutely original and unclassifiable. It is based on a diverse combination of literary genres, expressive tones and plot twists. His work is an example of independent formal experimentation.«
La Razón

»A story about the most unknown, most dangerous and most sublime that we carry inside of us.«
El País

»These pages will capture you almost hypnotically.«
ABC (Cultural)

»A publishing phenomenon has arrived in Brazil and turned into Bolaño’s possible successor.«
O Estado de São Paulo

»An encyclopedia, a survey, a deranged anthropology. Nocilla Dream is just the cold-hearted poetics that might see America for what it really is. There is something deeply strange and finally unknowable to this book, in the very best way – a testament to the brilliance of Agustín Fernández Mallo.«
Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet

»Spain‘s answer to Knausgaard.«
Harper‘s

»Just the thing for fans of Cortázar – and Borges, too.«
Kirkus Reviews

»Like having multiple browser windows open, and compulsively tabbing between them.«
The Guardian

»The most original and powerful author of his generation in Spain.«
Mathias Enard

»A wonderful work of avant-gardist fiction – in the line of David Markson, Ben Marcus.«
Asymptote

»Every page is loaded with poetry and desolation; simmering with disconcerting intuition at moments, and both terrifying and emotional at others.«
El Cultural

»A narrative adventure which shouldn’t pass by unheeded.«
Juan Bonilla

»Without a doubt, Nocilla Experience will raise expectations in the field of storytelling.«
El Mundo

»The novel is extremely accessible and presents a vivid portrayal of our civilization, depicted with both passion and bleak fatalism.«
La Vanguardia

»You could open this original novel over and over again and still turn each page eagerly anticipating the wonders of the next.«
Babelia