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EPISODE · Sep 29, 2020 · 5 MIN

The Most Precious of Cargoes: A Tale by Jean-Claude Grumberg

from Grab the Essential Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Westerns & War · host Stanford Bartoletti

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/404934 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Most Precious of Cargoes: A Tale Author: Jean-Claude Grumberg Narrator: Adam Lazarre-White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 7 minutes Release date: September 29, 2020 Genres: Westerns & War Publisher's Summary: 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.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/404934 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Most Precious of Cargoes: A Tale Author: Jean-Claude Grumberg Narrator: Adam Lazarre-White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 7 minutes Release date: September 29, 2020 Genres: Westerns & War Publisher's Summary: 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.

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