My family and other animals

Author's name: Gerald Durrell Publisher: Monologue for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2025 Literary classification: Biographies and Memoirs Brief about the book: This is one of the most entertaining memoir books; since its publication in 1956, it has not stopped being reprinted and translated. Gerald Durrell, before becoming the famous naturalist, was a ten-year-old child, passionate about everything that crawls and flies, when his Bohemian English family decided to move to live on the Greek island of Corfu. It was for him an emigration to paradise, where the animal kingdom was entirely under his feet. This memoir begins with a scene of a horse-drawn carriage, carrying a family chased by stray dogs, and continues its comedic narration of days that follow in a state of complete tolerance for anything, no matter how crazy and absurd. No bad experiences and no sermons here, only five noisy, free years of events narrated by Durrell after two decades of their occurrence, preserving the spirit of the child he was. His humor comes from the paradoxes of situations, the eccentric behavior of his siblings, and the island residents who live life as if it were an endless party.