Description
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
Author: Jean-Claude Grumberg
Publisher: Harpervia
Published: 09/29/2020
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.00w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780062981790
ISBN10: 006298179X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical | World War II
- Fiction | War & Military
- Fiction | Political