The most precious of cargoes : a tale / Jean-Claude Grumberg ; translated from the French by Frank Wynne.
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Details
- Edition
- First edition.
- Description
- 120 pages ; 19 cm
- Summary
- World War II. In an enormous forest a woodcutter and his wife find it difficult 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 baby girl wrapped in a shawl. Although she knows harboring this baby could lead to her death, she takes the child home. -- adapted from jacket.
- Subject
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Fiction.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Fiction.
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction.
- Added Author
- Wynne, Frank,
- Added Title
- Plus précieuse des marchandises. English
- ISBN
- 9780062981790 (hardcover)
- 006298179X (hardcover)