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Winner of seven Molières, the Pulitzer Prize of France, Jean-Claude Grumberg is one of France’s leading dramatists and a distinguished voice of modern European Jewry after the Shoah. His success in portraying contemporary Parisian Jews on the stage represents a new development in European theater and a new aesthetic expression of European Jewish experience and sensibility of the Holocaust and its aftermath, a perspective quite different from either the American or the Israeli one. Grumberg’s Jews are French to their fingertips, yet they have been made more consciously Jewish by the war and the difficulties of reintegrating into a society in which too many neighbors denounced them or ignored their pleas to save their children. Affirming the new status of Jewish culture, Grumberg’s plays insist on the recognition of Jewish identity and uniqueness within the majority societies of Europe.This volume offers the first English translation of three of Grumberg’s prize-winning plays: The Workplace (L’Atelier, 1979), On the Way to the Promised Land (Vers toi Terre promise, 2006) and Mama’s Coming Back, Poor Orphan (Maman revient, pauvre orphelin, 1994). Presented in the order of the history they record and steeped in Grumberg’s personal experience and insights into contemporary Parisian life, these plays serve as documentary witnesses that begin with the immediate postwar reality and continue up to the end of the twentieth century. Seth Wolitz provides notes on the plays’ themes, structures, characters, and settings, along with an introduction that discusses Grumberg’s place within the emergence of French-Jewish drama and a translation of an interview with the playwright himself.

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.Translated from the French by Frank Wynne

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.

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.

A haunting fable that tells a story of the Holocaust, and the remarkable acts of kindness which people are capable of.'A magnificent small book to read urgently' – LibérationOnce 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. Yet every night, the woodcutter's wife prays for a child.On a train crossing the forest, a Jewish father holds his twin children. His wife no longer has enough milk to feed them. In hopes of saving both their lives, he wraps his daughter in a shawl and gently throws her from the train.While foraging for food, the woodcutter’s wife finds a bundle, a baby girl wrapped in a shawl. She knows that this little girl will be pursued, but she cannot ignore this gift: she will accept the precious cargo, and raise her as her own. . .Set against the horrors of the Holocaust and told in a fairytale style, Jean-Claude Grumberg’s The Most Precious of Cargoes is a deeply moving fable about family and redemption. A story that reminds us that humanity can be found in the most inhumane of places.Translated from French by Frank Wynne.

Frantsuzskij dramaturg i stsenarist Zhan-Klod Grjum ber nakhodilsja v zagranichnom turne, predstavljaja svoju knigu "Samyj dorogoj tovar", kogda v bolnitse skonchalas ego zhena Zhaklin. Oni prozhili vmeste 60 let. S tekh por ezhechasno, dnem i nochju on pytaetsja skazat ej vse, chto ne uspel ili ne posmel, uderzhat ee esche nenadolgo rjadom, zapolnit slovami zijajuschuju pustotu. Tak pojavilas ego novaja kniga. Vospominanija, momenty schastja i gorja, sobytija bolshoj istorii i povsednevnosti, emotsii i chuvstva, priznanija, spontannye i obdumannye, sherokhovatye, zhivye, schemjaschie. Mozaika skorbi i radosti, "veselaja i nezhnaja, temnaja i sijajuschaja".Perevodchik: Khotinskaja Nina Osipovna

Det är som ett osannolikt äventyr. I fiktion och verklighet. En baby langas ut i en bönesjal från ett av Förintelsens godståg. Hon blir upplockad och får ett liv – trots krig, svält och misär. Hennes förtvivlade pappa blir frisör i dödens läger.Författaren till deras saga, Jean-Claude Grumberg, är en av få efterlevande i en familj som decimerats i Förintelsen. Hans grymma, livsbejakande berättelse, Det dyrbaraste lilla fyndet, blir älskad, prisbelönt och kritikerhyllad, nu översatt till 17 språk. Bara i Frankrike såld i 125 000 exemplar. Osannolikt nog lyckas ett mikroförlag, 29 media i Malmö, få rättigheterna att ge ut denna obevekligt gripande men osentimentala berättelse på svenska. Och då händer det att Ervin Rosenberg, en av Sveriges mest meriterade, prisbelönta översättare, förklarar att han känner sig hedrad och oreserverat tackar ja till att översätta texten. Det finns en alldeles särskild, inneboende kraft i den franske författaren Jean-Claude Grumbergs korta, inträngande roman Det dyrbaraste lilla fyndet – en saga. Författarens egen slutsats är att den handlar om kärlek. Kärlek som får människan att agera intuitivt och gå bortom sin till synes hopplösa belägenhet. Kanske är detta förklaringen på den lilla bokens internationella framgångar.Jean-Claude Grumberg, född 1939, är sedan 1980-talet en av Frankrikes mest prisbelönta författare, dramatiker och manusförfattare. Efterlevande i en judisk familj som nästan helt utplånats av Förintelsen har han skrivit om denna avgrundsmörka period i europeisk historia, bland annat i pjäsen Syateljén (1979) eller François Truffauts film Den sista metron (1980) och nu i Det dyrbaraste lilla fyndet. 2021 fick Grumberg tidningen Le Mondes Stora litteraturpris för Jacqueline, Jacqueline, en roman skriven till minne av hans nyss bortgångna hustru.Det dyrbaraste lilla fyndet är översatt till svenska av Ervin Rosenberg. Han har mottagit de främsta svenska utmärkelserna för sin översättargärning, som rymmer bland annat Nobelpristagaren Imre Kertész, Italo Calvino, Alexis de Toqueville, David Grossman och Amos Oz.Det dyrbaraste lilla fyndet – en saga belönades 2019 med de franska bokhandlarnas specialpris och BFM/L'Express TVs litteraturpris. Oscarsbelönade filmskaparen Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) håller på att göra en animerad film av berättelsen.

Edva madam Rozenfeld reshila v kanun Rozhdestva proverit, prolezet li v ee dymokhod Ded Moroz, kak on vozmi da i svalis ej prjamo na golovu. Vorchlivyj, na grani nervnogo sryva, no vse zhe Ded Moroz. Dazhe chlen profsojuza. No pomilujte, kakoj Ded Moroz v nashe vremja, posle vsego, chto perezhil i prodolzhaet perezhivat mir? Zhan-Klod Grjumber ("Samyj dorogoj tovar", "Zhaklin Zhaklin") smeshal v svoej novoj knige vremena i pokolenija, skazku i realnost, jumor i gorech vo imja pamjati, chtoby nyne zhivuschie uslyshali shepot tekh, komu, po slovam avtora, "poprostu ne khvatilo vremeni, chtoby verit ili ne verit v Deda Moroza". Perevodchik: Popova Alina