**In the gentle tone of a fable, Jean-Claude Grumbergβs *The Most Precious of Cargoes* tells the moving story of a woman who wanted a child, and a child who needed a home.** Once upon a time in an enormous forest, there lived a poor woodcutter and his wife. Around them a war wages, and hunger is
The Most Precious of Cargoes
β Scribed by Jean-Claude Grumberg
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 71 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 006298179X
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