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The Most Precious of Cargoes (Paperback)
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The Most Precious of Cargoes (Paperback)
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'A magnificent small book to read urgently' Liberation 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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