My Family and Other Animals. The Trilogy

«The Trilogy of Corfu» — is «books that are mesmerizing in the literal sense of the word» (Sunday Times) and «the most delightful idyll one could possibly imagine» (The New Yorker).

With unwavering love, impeccable accuracy, and inimitable humor, Darrell recounts the five-year stay of his family (including his older brother Larry, i.e., Lawrence Durrell — the future author of the famous «Alexandria Quartet») on the Greek island of Corfu.

The novels have spread across the world in multi-million copies, becoming bedside books for several generations of readers, and in England, they even became part of the school curriculum. The trilogy (which eventually grew to six books) has been adapted for television three times, the most recent being from 2016 to 2019, when the British company ITV released four seasons of the series «The Durrells», one of the directors of which was Edward Hall («Downton Abbey», «Agatha Christie's Miss Marple»). The novels are published in a new, complete translation by Sergey Task, whose translations of Tom Wolfe and John le Carré, Stephen King and Paul Auster, Ian McEwan, Richard Yates, and F. Scott Fitzgerald have already become classics.