The Most Precious of Cargoes

di Jean-Claude Grumberg (Autore)

Adam Lazarre-White (Narratore)

HarperAudio, 2020

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.

• Autore: Jean-Claude Grumberg
• Narratore: Adam Lazarre-White
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 02:07:31
• Anno edizione: 2020
• Editore: HarperAudio
• EAN: 9780063015357

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