by Gerald Durrell · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420632698
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«Un novio para mamá y otros relatos» is Gerald Durrell's collection of stories, published by Alianza in paperback (224 pages, in Spanish).
The stories in this volume gather Gerald Durrell's experiences as a naturalist and zoologist, told with humour and warmth: the life of an unconventional sow, the impression of a trip through the southern United States, and the adventures with a particularly talkative parrot.
It is volume 269 of the Alianza Tres collection. Translation by Fernando Santos Fontela. Original title: Marrying Off Mother and Other Stories (1980).
For readers of short fiction with humour and for followers of Gerald Durrell's naturalist memoirs.
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.
