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020			_a9781529019582
040			_aKenya National Library Service
082			_a823 GRU
100			_aGrumberg, Jean-Claude _eAuthor
245			_aThe most precious of cargoes : _ba fable of the holocaust / _cJean-Claude Grumberg ; translated from the French by Frank Wynne
300			_a104 pages ; _c21 cm
520			_aThe book is a powerful and unsettling tale about a woodcutter and his wife, who finds a mysterious parcel thrown from a passing train. 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.
650			_aFoundlings --Fiction
650			_aParent and child -- Fiction
700			_aWynne, Frank _eTranslator
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