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The Most Precious of Cargoes: A Tale

por Jean-Claude Grumberg

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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.

Translated from the French by Frank Wynne

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Ce petit livre a eu beaucoup de succès à sa sortie, et j’étais tentée de le lire même si quelque chose dans ce battage médiatique me faisait hésiter. La lecture offerte sur France Culture était donc pour moi une bonne occasion de découvrir le texte sans prendre de risque. Et j’ai bien fait de ne pas prendre de risque, parce que je n’ai pas accroché du tout. Je comprends l’engouement pour ce texte, assez facile d’accès par son style et original (enfin, d’une originalité assez à la mode en ce moment) par sa forme de conte et par la connivence factice que l’auteur veut créer avec le lecteur qu’il interpelle de loin en loin comme s’il s’agissait d’une conversation. La forme du conte permet à Jean-Claude Grumberg d’écrire un roman simple mais que je n’ai pu m’empêcher de trouver simpliste.
Je suis donc complètement passé à côté du charme que beaucoup de lecteurs ont trouvé à ce livre. Et je ne peux m’empêcher de penser que Jean-Claude Grumberg ayant écrit pour le théâtre et le cinéma, cette œuvre serait effectivement mieux adaptée à un autre médium que le livre, car le format du court roman ne me paraît rendre justice à une prose aisée et à quelques trouvailles qui seraient mieux mises en valeur ailleurs.
  raton-liseur | Apr 6, 2023 |
This story (fairy tale?) is so beautiful but also so sad. The story of a lonely woodcutters wife who is gifted a most precious thing to look after at a time in history where the world was at war. There were unspeakable atrocities and great danger and tragedy. Yet out of this little story the author manages to capture such elements of love and also hope to sustain the beautifully drawn characters. ( )
  PriscillaM | Aug 21, 2021 |
En 1942, un couple juifs, parisiens et leurs enfants, des jumeaux, sont arrêtés, internés à Drancy et déportés vers un camp d'extermination. Durant le trajet, la femme en pouvant nourrir les deux enfants, l'homme, comme dans le conte du Petit Poucet, abandonne l'un des enfants, la fille, en la jetant du train. Elle est recueilli par la femme d'un bûcheron, qui la sauvera. Comme dans un conte, tout est symbole, métaphore, allégorie, irréelle. Par ce biais du conte, un très beau petit texte qui symbolise toute la tragédie de la shoah. ( )
  folivier | Dec 21, 2020 |
This is a beautiful and moving fairy tale. I really enjoyed reading it, but I just didn't think it was substantial enough to give it more than 3 stars. ( )
  Iudita | Nov 9, 2020 |
"Once upon a time, in a great forest....." So, is this a fairytale? We,, it does have a woodcutter and a woodcutters wife and they are poor and cold. The cold changes, but never the hunger. Are fairytaes even real? Mmmmmm, many are created among true events and most of these takes contain good and evil.

The woodcutters wife dearest wish is to have a child, but her husband, who works and drinks very hard, is glad not to have another mouth to feed. The war has effected much in her woods, and train tracks have been laid. Now, a train passes daily and the wife has much time on her hands. She times her day to be present when the train passes. She is convinced that one day the train will give her a gift. And then one day........

You see the war is on and there is much evil, but also much love. The evil will do anything to complete their dark and horrific plans. But those that can love, will make many sacrifices for those they love as will those who will risk much to help others.

This is a both a heartbreaking tale and a beautiful one. Beauty and light can sometimes be found in darkness, not often enough, but it does. We see it and hear about it soon the time. So, is this a fairy tale? Read it and decide for yourself.

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  Beamis12 | Jul 13, 2020 |
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Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:

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.

Translated from the French by Frank Wynne

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