by Gerald Durrell · ALMACEN PROPIO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788402084583
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Filetes de lenguado is a collection of short stories by British author Gerald Durrell, published by Bruguera in 1982. The book, part of the Club Joven collection, offers a sample of Durrell's unmistakable sense of humor through six pieces that narrate family episodes in Corfu and the adventures of a white colony in Cameroon. With illustrations by Gerardo R. Amechazurra and translation by Marta Sánchez Martín, this complete edition is ideal for young readers and lovers of 20th century English literature.
Gerald Malcolm Durrell was a British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservationist, and television presenter. He was born in Jamshedpur in British India, and moved to England when his father died in 1928. In 1935 the family moved to Corfu, and stayed there for four years, before the outbreak of World War II forced them to return to the UK. In 1946 he received an inheritance from his father's will that he used to fund animal-collecting trips to the British Cameroons and British Guiana. He married Jacquie Rasen in 1951; they had very little money, and she persuaded him to write an account of his first trip to the Cameroons. The result, titled The Overloaded Ark, sold well, and he began writing accounts of his other trips. An expedition to Argentina and Paraguay followed in 1953, and three years later he published My Family and Other Animals, which became a bestseller.
