The most precious of cargoes : a tale

The Resource The most precious of cargoes : a tale
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The most precious of cargoes : a tale
Title remainder
a tale
Statement of responsibility
Jean-Claude Grumberg ; translated from the French by Frank Wynne
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Language
  • eng
  • fre
  • eng
Summary
  • A fairytale-like novel set during the height of World War II finds a childless, impoverished woodcutter's wife risking her safety to take in and protect a Jewish baby, a twin abandoned under desperate circumstances
  • 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
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NjBwBT
Dewey number
842/.914
Index
no index present
LC call number
PQ2667.R73
LC item number
P5813 2020
Literary form
fiction

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