My family and other animals

My Family and Other Animals is “a book that is literally spellbinding” (Sunday Times) and “the most delightful idyll imaginable” (The New Yorker). With unfailing love, impeccable accuracy and inimitable humor, Durrell talks about the five-year stay of his family (including his older brother Larry, that is, Lawrence Durrell - the future author of the famous “Alexandria Quartet”) on the Greek island of Corfu. This novel itself and its sequels sold millions of copies around the world, became reference books for several generations of readers, and in England were even included in the school curriculum. The Corfu Trilogy has been brought to television three times, most recently from 2016 to 2019, when the British company ITV released four seasons of The Durrells, co-directed by Edward Hall (Downton Abbey, Agatha Christie's Miss Marple "). The novel is published in a new complete translation by Sergei Task, whose translations by Tom Wolfe and John Le Carré, Stephen King and Paul Auster, Ian McEwan, Richard Yates and Francis Scott Fitzgerald have already become classics.