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"Vydatʹ mamu zamuzh" - ėto prodolzhenie romanov "Moi͡a semʹi͡a i drugie zveri" - "knigi, zavorazhivai͡ushcheĭ v bukvalʹnom smysle slova" (Sunday Times) i "samoĭ voskhititelʹnoĭ idillii, kakui͡u tolʹko mozhno voobrazitʹ" (The New Yorker), - "Ptit͡sy, zveri i rodstvenniki" i "Sad bogov", a takzhe sbornikov "Prazdniki, zveri i prochie nesuraznosti" i "Piknik i prochie koshmary". S neizmennoĭ li͡ubovʹi͡u i nepodrazhaemym i͡umorom Darrell rasskazyvaet o prebyvanii svoeĭ semʹi (v tom chisle starshego brata Larri, to estʹ Lorensa Darrella - budushchego avtora znamenitogo "Aleksandriĭskogo kvarteta") na grecheskom ostrove Korfu i ob ikh dalʹneĭshikh prikli͡uchenii͡akh, demonstrirui͡a samui͡u shirokui͡u palitru pisatelʹskogo masterstva vplotʹ do goticheskoĭ istorii o prizrakakh; zdesʹ mogut dratʹsi͡a na duėli iz-za svinʹi - okhotnit͡sy na tri͡ufeli,popugaĭ-skvernoslov terroriziruet vesʹ London, a nashi starye znakomye Margo, Lesli, Dzherri i Larri pytai͡utsi͡a vydatʹ zamuzh svoi͡u matʹ s samymi neozhidannymi posledstvii͡ami. Ėti romany i sborniki razoshlisʹ po miru mnogomillionnymi tirazhami, stali nastolʹnymi knigami uzhe u neskolʹkikh pokoleniĭ chitateleĭ, a v Anglii dazhe voshli v shkolʹnui͡u programmu. "Trilogii͡a o Korfu" (s techeniem vremeni razrosshai͡asi͡a do shesti knig) trizhdy perenosilasʹ na teleėkran, prichem posledniĭ raz - v 2016-2019 godakh, kogda britanskai͡a kompanii͡a ITV vypustila serial "Darrelly", odnim iz postanovshchikov kotorogo vystupil Ėdvard Kholl ("Abbatstvo Daunton", "Miss Marpl Agaty Kristi"). Sbornik publikuetsi͡a v novom 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.

"Marry Mom Off" is a sequel to the novels "My Family and Other Animals"—"a book that literally fascinates" (Sunday Times) and "the most delightful idyll imaginable" (The New Yorker), "Birds, Animals and Relatives" and "Garden of the Gods", as well as the collections "Holidays, animals and other absurdities" and "Picnic and other nightmares". With unfailing love and inimitable humor, Darrell tells about the stay of his family (including his older brother Larry, that is, Lawrence Darrell, the future author of the famous "Alexandria Quartet") on the Greek island of Corfu and about their further adventures, demonstrating the widest palette of writing skills, up to a Gothic ghost story; here you can fight on the duels over a truffle-hunting pig, a foul—mouthed parrot terrorizes the whole of London, and our old friends Margot, Leslie, Jerry and Larry try to marry off their mother with the most unexpected consequences. These novels and collections have sold millions of copies around the world, have become board books for several generations of readers, and have even been included in the school curriculum in England. The Corfu Trilogy (which has grown to six books over time) has been transferred to the television screen three times, the last time being in 2016-2019, when the British company ITV released the Darrell series, co-directed by Edward Hall (Downton Abbey, Agatha Christie's Miss Marple). The collection is published in a new 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.