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 that can be imagined” (The New Yorker). With unwavering affection, impeccable accuracy, and unmatched humor, Durrell recounts his family’s five-year stay (including his older brother Larry, that is, Lawrence Durrell – the future author of the famous “Alexandrian Quartet”) on the Greek island of Corfu. Both this novel and its sequels have sold millions of copies worldwide, becoming staple reading for several generations of readers, and even entered the school curriculum in England. The “Corfu Trilogy” has been adapted for television three times, with the latest adaptation occurring 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 novel is published in a 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.