Atom Heart Mother

A son retraces his fathers journey across America to fly home with a herd of cows, in a singularly gripping novel of family memory and Spanish history spanning an entire century.

In 1967, shortly before Agustn Fernndez Mallo was born, his father a veterinarian from a village in Len, and a firm believer in science and progress travelled across the United States with the aim of bringing a herd of cows by plane to Galicia.

Almost half a century later, Fernndez Mallo makes his own journey through the American heartland, attempting to retrace his fathers steps before he loses his memory.

Atom Heart Mother spans a century of Spanish history through a web of family stories and legends. A bracing intellectual elegy for a parent and for a world that is slowly slipping away, this chimerical work of historical reconstitution is Agustn Fernndez Mallo, one of the most ambitious and original Spanish-language author