My Family and Other Animals

«My Family and Other Animals» — is «a book that is mesmerizing in the literal sense of the word» (Sunday Times) and «the most delightful idyll one can imagine» (The New Yorker). With unwavering love, impeccable precision, and unique humor, Durrell recounts the five-year stay of his family (including his elder brother Larry, or Lawrence Durrell — the future author of the famous «Alexandria Quartet») on the Greek island of Corfu. Both this novel and its sequels have sold millions of copies worldwide, becoming staple books for several generations of readers, and even featured in the school curriculum in England. «The Corfu Trilogy» has been adapted for television three times, the last being in 2016, when the British company ITV released the first season of the series «The Durrells», with one of the directors being Edward Hall («Downton Abbey», «Agatha Christie's Miss Marple»).
The novel is published in a new (and for the first time - 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.