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Jean-Claude Grumberg: The Most Precious Of Cargoes [2021] hardback GRDNG To some the Anthropocene symbolisesTold in the gentle tone of a fable, Jean Claude Grumberg's The Most Precious of Cargoes tells the moving story of a woman who wanted a child, and a child who needed a home. It is a tale that teaches us that even in the darkest, most violent times, there is reason to believe in people's capacity for kindness. Once upon a time in an enormous forest there lived a poor woodcutter and his wife. Around them a war wages, and hunger is a constant companion.