Give my mother away in marriage
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Give my mother away in marriage
9.99 €
Marrying Mother Off is a sequel to My Family and Other Animals—"a book that is literally captivating" (Sunday Times) and "the most delightful idyll imaginable" (The New Yorker)—Birds, Beasts, and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods, as well as the collections Holidays, Beasts, and Other Ridiculous Things and Picnic and Other Nightmares.
With unfailing love and inimitable humor, Durrell recounts his family's stay (including his older brother, Larry, aka Lawrence Durrell, the future author of the celebrated Alexandria Quartet) on the Greek island of Corfu and their subsequent adventures, demonstrating a wide range of writing techniques, including gothic ghost stories; Here, people can duel over a truffle-hunting pig, a foul-mouthed parrot terrorizes all of London, and our old friends Margo, Leslie, Jerry, and Larry try to marry off their mother, with the most unexpected consequences.
These novels and collections have sold millions of copies worldwide, have become bedtime stories for generations of readers, and in England, have even been included in the school curriculum. The Corfu Trilogy (which has expanded to six books over time) has been adapted for television three times, most recently from 2016 to 2019, when the British network ITV released the series The Durrells, co-directed by Edward Hall (Downton Abbey, Agatha Christie's Miss Marple).
The collection is published in a new translation by Sergei 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.
With unfailing love and inimitable humor, Durrell recounts his family's stay (including his older brother, Larry, aka Lawrence Durrell, the future author of the celebrated Alexandria Quartet) on the Greek island of Corfu and their subsequent adventures, demonstrating a wide range of writing techniques, including gothic ghost stories; Here, people can duel over a truffle-hunting pig, a foul-mouthed parrot terrorizes all of London, and our old friends Margo, Leslie, Jerry, and Larry try to marry off their mother, with the most unexpected consequences.
These novels and collections have sold millions of copies worldwide, have become bedtime stories for generations of readers, and in England, have even been included in the school curriculum. The Corfu Trilogy (which has expanded to six books over time) has been adapted for television three times, most recently from 2016 to 2019, when the British network ITV released the series The Durrells, co-directed by Edward Hall (Downton Abbey, Agatha Christie's Miss Marple).
The collection is published in a new translation by Sergei 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.
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