Boy: Tales of Childhood is the first of children's author Roald Dahl's two autobiographical books. Dahl published this book in 1984; this first autobiographical book focuses on Dahl's early childhood and adolescent memories in Wales, England, and Norway in the 1920s and 1930s.
The story begins with anecdotes about Dahl's father Harald, a one-armed Norwegian who established a successful shipbroking firm in Cardiff, Wales. Tragedy strikes the family when Dahl's sister Astri dies of appendicitis and, while grieving his daughter's death, Harald develops pneumonia and dies soon after. Dahl's mother Sofie, pregnant with her fifth child, stays in the UK to fulfill her husband's wish that his...
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