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The Most Precious of Cargoes: A Tale (French: La Plus Précieuse des marchandises : Un conte) is a novel by French author and playwright Jean-Claude Grumberg, published on 10 January 2019 by Éditions du Seuil. [1] It is a postmodern fairy tale set during the Holocaust.
Sep 29, 2020 · 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. Translated from the French by Frank Wynne. Read more.
- Jean-Claude Grumberg
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.
Sep 29, 2020 · In a fabulist novella, a Jewish man bound for a concentration camp throws one of his twin babies from a moving train; a Polish countrywoman finds the child and raises her as her own.
Sep 29, 2020 · 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. Translated from the French by Frank Wynne.
- Jean-Claude Grumberg
Jan 21, 2021 · 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.
Set against the horrors of the Holocaust and told in a fairytale style, Jean-Claude Grumberg’s The Most Precious of Cargoes 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. Translated from French by Frank Wynne.
- Jean-Claude Grumberg
