The Heart of the Swallows is a journey into the childhood of Alejandro López Andrada, a lyrical and endearing evocation of the days when time passed to the rhythm of nature in the Los Pedroches valley of Córdoba. With the mastery that has earned him numerous literary awards, the author immerses us in an almost forgotten world, where life in the countryside pulsated with an authenticity that seems to be fading today. Through memories imbued with tenderness and wonder, López Andrada portrays the close relationship between humans and the land and animals, especially birds, those messengers from the sky that marked the seasons and inhabited childhood dreams. His prose, imbued with nostalgia and beauty, not only reconstructs a lost landscape, but also invites us to reflect on the contrast between that simple existence and the fast-paced present we live in today. A book that is memory, tribute, and poem. A testimony that beats with the emotion of someone who remembers with deep love what was once his home.
