Jean-Claude Grumberg

"Il était une fois, dans un grand bois, une pauvre bûcheronne et un pauvre bûcheron. Non non non non, rassurez-vous, ce n'est pas "Le Petit Poucet"..."

Le soir. Une laverie automatique, le propriétaire s’apprête à fermer. Entre alors un homme et la conversation s’installe...

Told 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...

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...