My Family and Other Animals

My Family and Other AnimalsGerald Durrell's beloved classic memoir, now published as a beautiful Penguin Clothbound Classics edition When My Family and Other Animals was published it was as if someone had flung back the curtains, thrown up the windows and let in a stream of bright light Kathryn Hughes, Guardian Gerald Durrell was magic Sir David Attenborough Living in Corfu was rather like living in one of the more flamboyant and slapstick comic operas It is 1935 and the

Bird learns to sing a new song

går hun ud for at drikke en kop fra regnvandstønden

ud med vaginaldeodorant og ud med de snærende bånd og konventioner

det skal du vide

og idéen om en slags kunstprojekt  med Dick i centrum opstår

Ved at give hønsene forhold

Med hans indsigt og oprigtighed fremstår de litterært underbelyste miljøer nærværende og autentiske

including Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth

En kraftfuld

and examining the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Felix Gonzalez-Torres

In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host

de har til fælles - og de lærer aldrig deres børn tegnsprog