MICHAEL PATERNITI

In the summer of 2000, the author listened as Ambrosio Molinos de las Heras of the picturesque Spanish village of Guzman spun an odd and compelling tale about a cheese made from an ancient family recipe. Reputed to be among the finest in the world - one bite could conjure long-lost memories. In this book, the author relates his experience.

As heard on Radio 4 Book of the Week. In the medieval Castilian village of Guzman (population: 80), villagers have gathered for centuries in the 'telling room' to share stories and drink the local wine. It was here, in the summer of 2000, that Michael Paterniti found himself listening to a compelling tale about a cheese made from an ancient family recipe that was reputed to be among the finest in the world. Until, Ambrosio said, things had gone horribly wrong. Hooked on the story, Paterniti relocated his young family to the tiny hilltop village to find out more. But like many Spanish villages, Guzman was rife with gossip and old feuds, secret alliances and plotted vengeance and before long Paterniti was sucked into the heart of an unfolding mystery. When he learned that the cheesemaker had apparently plotted to murder his closest friend, the village began to spill its long-held secrets, and Paterniti found himself implicated in ways he never expected...

Part travelogue, part memoir, this unique book follows an eighty-four-year-old pathologist and a young journalist across the country with Albert Einstein's brain in Tupperware bowl filled with formaldehyde in the trunk of their car. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.. NOTA: El libro no esta en español, sino en ingles.

El cerebro de Albert Einstein cruza veloz, sumergido en formol dentro de un tupperware en el maletero de un Buick Skylark, Estados Unidos. El conductor, Michael Paterniti, un joven periodista; su acompañante, el anciano patologo Thomas Harvey, que cuarenta años atras ¿durante la autopsia de Einstein- saco el cerebro y, sin mas, se lo llevo a casa. Un frio dia de febrero, dos hombres y un cerebro abandonan New Jersey rumbo a California. Alli los aguarda, perpleja, Evelyn, la nieta de Einstein. Un original relato de viaje en el que Paterniti, en compañia del famoso cerebro, transmite su deslumbrante, magica y aguda percepcion del sueño americano.