Bøger af Jean-Claude Grumberg

DET DYREBARESTE STYKKE JERNBANEGODS er et eventyr for voksne og større børn. Et eventyr, der her i 75-året for befrielsen af Auschwitz slår til lyd for større tolerance mellem mennesker og alle menneskers ret til at leve – skrevet med lune midt i alle grusomhederne og i en anden form, end vi er vant til. Under anden verdenskrig er et godstog med deporterede franske jøder på vej mod en grusom skæbne, da faderen til et par nyfødte tvillinger i afmagt beslutter at kaste den ene tvilling ud fra toget. En beslutning, der bliver ved at hjemsøge ham, men barnet, det lille stykke jernbanegods, bliver opfostret af et fattigt skovhuggerpar, som kommer til at elske det over alt på jorden. Bogen har siden januar 2019 solgt over 73.000 eksemplarer i Frankring.

For readers of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Book Thief, Jean-Claude Grumberg's haunting fable, an enormous bestseller in his native France, tells a story of the Holocaust and the remarkable acts of kindness of which people are capable.

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.

This important drama was named best play of the 1979 Paris season and has subsequently moved audiences throughout the world with its simple story about seamstresses struggling to recover from the aftermath of World War II. The central character struggles to keep herself and her two sons alive while she waits for word about her husband who was deported to a concentration camp. Her heroism and determination are especially poignant, for she is a portrait of the playwright's mother. There is an evocative balance of humor and pathos in this excellent play, as well as a number of fine monologues and six excellent female roles.