The Most Precious of Cargoes

The Most Precious of Cargoes
Author: Jean-Claude Grumberg
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 71
Release: 2020-09-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0062981811


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Set during the height of World War II, a powerful and unsettling tale about a woodcutter and his wife, who finds a mysterious parcel thrown from a passing train. Once upon a time in an enormous forest lived a woodcutter and his wife. The woodcutter is very poor and a war rages around them, making it difficult for them to put food on the table. Yet every night, his wife prays for a child. A Jewish father rides on a train holding twin babies. His wife no longer has enough milk to feed both children. In hopes of saving them both, he wraps his daughter in a shawl and throws her into the forest. While foraging for food, the wife finds a bundle, a baby girl wrapped in a shawl. Although she knows harboring this baby could lead to her death, she takes the child home. Set against the horrors of the Holocaust and told with a fairytale-like lyricism, The Most Precious of Cargoes is a fable about family and redemption which reminds us that humanity can be found in the most inhumane of places. Translated from the French by Frank Wynne


The Most Precious of Cargoes
Language: en
Pages: 144
Authors: Jean-Claude Grumberg
Categories: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-21 - Publisher: Picador

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