Currently, the English writer Roald Dahl is well known to Russian-speaking readers. It is widely translated and published by .. In the first half of the 90s, during one of my visits to Germany, my friend and colleague there told me about his favorite writer as a child, Roald Dahl, and was quite surprised that I do not even know his name. The next day he brought me a book in English and all my evenings from that moment were filled with a new writer. I liked him very much, both the ability to see the plot literally in any corner of the road, and the conciseness and at the same time the capacity of the presentation, as well as a wonderful sense of humor, the very English humor, subtle and almost imperceptible.