by Gerald Durrell · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420447889
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«Rosy es mi familia» is the humorous novel by Gerald Durrell, published by Alfaguara in paperback (288 pages, in Spanish).
Adrian Rookwhistle receives an unexpected inheritance: five hundred pounds and Rosy, an elephant with a weakness for drink. To solve the problem, he decides to hand her over to a circus, but the task becomes complicated and both find themselves caught up in a series of mishaps.
Translation by Juan Basabe, with illustrations by Helena Rosa-Trías. Belongs to the Alfaguara 10 Años series. Original work: «Rosy Is My Relative».
Suitable for young readers aged 10 and up, as well as for fans of animal comedies.
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.
