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The Most Precious of Cargoes, Hardback Book

The Most Precious of Cargoes Hardback

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Told in the gentle tone of a fable, Jean-Claude Grumberg's The Most Precious of Cargoes tells the moving story of a woman who wanted a child, and a child who needed a home.

It is a tale that teaches us that even in the darkest, most violent times, there is reason to believe in people's capacity for kindness. Once upon a time in an enormous forest there lived a poor woodcutter and his wife.

Around them a war wages, and hunger is a constant companion.

Yet every night, the woodcutter's wife prays for a child. On a train crossing the forest, a Jewish father holds his twin children.

His wife no longer has enough milk to feed them. In hopes of saving both their lives, he wraps his daughter in a shawl and gently throws her from the train. While foraging for food, the woodcutter's wife finds a bundle, a baby girl wrapped in a shawl.

She knows that this little girl will be pursued, but she cannot ignore this gift: she will accept the precious cargo, and raise her as her own. . . Set against the horrors of the Holocaust and told with a fairytale-like lyricism, The Most Precious of Cargoes, translated from French by Frank Wynne, is a deeply moving fable about family and redemption, a story that reminds us that humanity can be found in the most inhumane of places.

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