The Most Precious of Cargoes (ePub)
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...
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'A magnificent small book to read urgently' Libération
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.
- Autor: Jean-Claude Grumberg
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 18 Jahre
- 2021, 112 Seiten, Englisch
- Übersetzer: Frank Wynne
- Verlag: Pan Macmillan
- ISBN-10: 1529019591
- ISBN-13: 9781529019599
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.01.2021
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