by Gerald Durrell · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420633381
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«Un novio para mamá y otros relatos» is the short story collection by Gerald Durrell, published by Alianza Editorial in hardcover (247 pages, in Spanish).
Collection of eight stories by Gerald Durrell, a writer linked to nature and zoology, with a humorous and costumbrista narrative vein. The story that gives the book its title, an unpublished episode of the Durrell family in Corfu, is completed with seven tales ranging from psychological terror to personal adventure, with characters such as Ursula.
Originally published as «Marrying Off Mother and Other Stories»; translated by Fernando Santos Fontenla. Part of the Biblioteca Durrell, within El Libro de Bolsillo.
For readers of short fiction with humor and costumbrismo, and for those already familiar with Gerald Durrell's naturalist and autobiographical chronicles.
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.
