Моя семья и другие звери

"Moi͡a semʹi͡a i drugie zveri" - ėto "kniga, zavorazhivai͡ushchai͡a v bukvalʹnom smysle slova" (Sunday Times) i "samai͡a voskhititelʹnai͡a idillii͡a, kakui͡u tolʹko mozhno voobrazitʹ" (The New Yorker). S neizmennoĭ li͡ubovʹi͡u, bezuprechnoĭ tochnostʹi͡u i nepodrazhaemym i͡umorom Darrell rasskazyvaet o pi͡atiletnem prebyvanii svoeĭ semʹi (v tom chisle starshego brata Larri, to estʹ Lourensa Darrella - budushchego avtora znamenitogo "Aleksandriĭskogo kvarteta") na grecheskom ostrove Korfu. I sam ėtot roman, i ego prodolzhenii͡a razoshlisʹ po miru mnogomillionnymi tirazhami, stali nastolʹnymi knigami uzhe u neskolʹkikh pokoleniĭ chitateleĭ, a v Anglii dazhe voshli v shkolʹnui͡u programmu. "Trilogii͡a o Korfu" trizhdy perenosilasʹ na teleėkran, prichem posledniĭ raz - v 2016-2019 godakh, kogda britanskai͡a kompanii͡a ITV vypustila chetyre sezona seriala "Darrelly", odnim iz postanovshchikov kotorogo vystupil Ėdvard Kholl ("Abbatstvo Daunton", "Miss Marpl Agaty Kristi"). Roman publikuetsi͡a v polnom perevode, vypolnennom Sergeem Taskom, chʹi perevody Toma Vulfa i Dzhona Le Karre, Stivena Kinga i Pola Ostera, Iėna Makʹi͡uėna, Richarda Ĭeĭtsa i Frėnsisa Skotta Fit͡sdzheralʹda uzhe stali klassicheskimi.

"My Family and Other Animals" is "a book that is literally mesmerizing" (Sunday Times) and "the most delightful idyll imaginable" (The New Yorker). With unfailing love, impeccable accuracy and inimitable humor, Darrell tells about the five—year stay of his family (including his older brother Larry, that is, Lawrence Darrell, 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 around the world, have become board books for several generations of readers, and even entered the school curriculum in England. The "Corfu Trilogy" was transferred to the TV screen three times, the last time in 2016-2019, when the British company ITV released four seasons of the series "The Darrells", co-directed by Edward Hall ("Downton Abbey", "Miss Marple Agatha Christie"). The novel is published in a full translation by Sergey Task, whose translations by Tom Wolfe and John Le Carré, Stephen King and Paul Auster, Ian McEwan, Richard Yeats and Francis Scott Fitzgerald have already become classics.