by Gerald Durrell · Viena · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483305331
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«Un lloro per al vicari» is Gerald Durrell's collection of short stories, published by Viena in paperback (256 pages, in Catalan).
It brings together eight stories by Gerald Durrell with his characteristic English humour: the re-education of a foul-mouthed parrot destined for a retired vicar, a picnic in the Périgord with a truffle-hunting sow, and a return to the Corfu of his childhood, where his siblings try to find a suitor for their mother.
It is volume 11 of the El cercle de Viena collection; translated by Jordi Arbonès Montull from the original English «Marrying Off Mother and Other Stories».
For readers who enjoy travel stories, nature and British humour.
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.
