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""This swift, intense novelette...is dreamy and ethereal, repeating themes of milk, sustenance, and what it means to love a child. An excellent choice for book clubs."" -- Booklist ""With subtlety and intention, the novella ultimately implores us to consider the purpose of literature after tragedy...It is difficult, in 2020, to write a work of fiction about the Holocaust that is original; even simply in this sense, Grumberg's work succeeds where many have failed."" -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

With subtlety and intention, the novella ultimately implores us to consider the purpose of literature after tragedy...It is difficult, in 2020, to write a work of fiction about the Holocaust that is original; even simply in this sense, Grumberg's work succeeds where many have failed. --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) This swift, intense novelette...is dreamy and ethereal, repeating themes of milk, sustenance, and what it means to love a child. An excellent choice for book clubs. --Booklist

This swift, intense novelette...is dreamy and ethereal, repeating themes of milk, sustenance, and what it means to love a child. An excellent choice for book clubs. -- Booklist With subtlety and intention, the novella ultimately implores us to consider the purpose of literature after tragedy...It is difficult, in 2020, to write a work of fiction about the Holocaust that is original; even simply in this sense, Grumberg's work succeeds where many have failed. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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Jean-Claude Grumberg was born in 1939. He started out as an actor before writing his first play in 1968. Since then he has written more than forty scripts for the stage and film. He currently lives and works in his native France. He was inspired by the loss of his own father in a Nazi concentration camps to write The Most Precious of Cargoes. He lives in France.

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