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The Most Precious of Cargoes : a Tale by Jean-Claude Grumberg is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Most Precious of Cargoes : a Tale about?
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.
Who reads The Most Precious of Cargoes : a Tale?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Jean-Claude Grumberg
- Publisher
- Picador
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780062981790
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Romance, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (150 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14