My Family and Other Animals

«My Family and Other Animals» is «a book that is captivating 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 inimitable humor, Durrell recounts his family's five-year stay (including his older brother Larry, i.e. Lawrence Durrell — the future author of the famous «Alexandria Quartet») on the Greek island of Corfu. Both this novel and its sequels have reached millions of copies worldwide, becoming beloved books for generations of readers, and even entered 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», one of the directors of which was Edward Hall («Downton Abbey», «Miss Marple by Agatha Christie»).
The novel is published in a new (and for the first time — complete) translation by Sergey Task, whose translations of Tom Wolfe, John le Carré, Stephen King, Paul Auster, Ian McEwan, Richard Yates, and F. Scott Fitzgerald have already become classics.