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Estamos ante la novelaidónea para hacer que unas aburridas y largas semanas vacacionales se transformen en otro paisaje. Es divertida, usa de una sutil ironía “inglesa” con la que es imposible que desaparezca la sonrisa de nuestro rostro, su prosa es impecable, las descripciones de los paisajes de la isla de Corfú así como las referentes a la vida y costumbres de los animales son una delicia...

Veréis: GeraldDurrel fue el hermano menor de una familia extrañamente atípica compuesta por una angelical e inocente madre viuda, un hermano aficionado a las armas, una bella hermana llena de glamour y de granos en la cara, y el tercer miembro en discordia, el escritor que más tarde fuera uno de los más grandes novelistas ingleses del siglo XX, Laurence Durrell, (Larry, el hermano mayor). En total, cuatro hermanosllenos de juventud, protestas, exigencias, catarros y acné.

Así que en la época en que se desarrolla la historia que hoy os aconsejo, todos atravesaban esa primera juventud, si no adolescencia, excepto Gerald (Gerry, nuestro protagonista) que es quien recuerda aquella etapa de su vida y nos la muestra con sus ojos de niño. La cosa comienza un día de lluviosa primavera en que el sol apenas sedeja ver. Todos están enfermos, todos yacen en sus camas estornudando y sumidos en la más desagradable de las depresiones mientras afuera llueve sobre la verde pero brumosa campiña inglesa. Eso hace que se planteen, con un estupendo sentido del humor, la posibilidad de levantar anclas e irse a pasar un tiempo a una isla griega, llena de sol y de vida, de la que un amigo del “intelectual” Larry les...