The most precious of cargoes a tale /
A fairytale-like novel set during the height of World War II finds a childless, impoverished woodcutter's wife risking her safety to take in and protect a Jewish baby, a twin abandoned under desperate circumstances.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French |
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New York, NY :
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | A fairytale-like novel set during the height of World War II finds a childless, impoverished woodcutter's wife risking her safety to take in and protect a Jewish baby, a twin abandoned under desperate circumstances. World War II. In an enormous forest a woodcutter and his wife find it difficult 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 baby girl wrapped in a shawl. Although she knows harboring this baby could lead to her death, she takes the child home. -- adapted from jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | 120 pages ; 19 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780062981790 006298179X |