Atom Heart Mother: A Novel

A son re-creates his dying father’s journey from fifty years ago, illuminating a strange, beguiling portrait of a century of Spanish history, and the fading memories of their relationship.

In this captivating tightrope act of autofiction, Agustín Fernández Mallo shares the story of two parallel journeys taken by a father and a son—each separated by half a century of Spanish history and their own complex and layered relationship.

In 1967, the father of Mallo’s narrator (also Agustín Fernánde...