Holidays, Beasts and Other Oddities is a sequel to My Family and Other Beasts, “a book that literally captivates” (Sunday Times) and “the most delightful idyll imaginable” (The New Yorker - and Birds, Beasts and My Family. With unfailing love, impeccable accuracy and inimitable humor, Durrell talks about the five-year stay of his family (including his older brother Larry, that is, Lawrence Durrell, the future author of the famous “Alexandria Quartet”) on the Greek island of Corfu. These novels and collections sold millions of copies around the world, became reference books for several generations of readers, and in England were even included in the school curriculum. The Corfu Trilogy (which over time grew to include six books) has been brought to television three times, most recently in 2016, when the British company ITV released the first season of The Durrells, co-directed by Edward Hall (Downton Abbey). ", "Agatha Christie's Miss Marple"). The collection is published in a new translation by Sergei Task, whose translations of Tom Wolfe and John Le Carré, Stephen King and Paul Auster, Ian McEwan, Richard Yates and Francis Scott Fitzgerald have already become classics.