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Title: Absent Moon
Author: SCHWARCZ LUIZ
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/08/2023
Imprint: BLOOMSBURY
Price: $33.00
Publishing status: Active
‘A beautiful work that is in turn haunting, touching and redemptive’ SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE
‘Generous in spirit, devoid of self-pity, and an authentic literary achievement’ ANDREW SOLOMON
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When Luiz Schwarcz was a child, he was told little about his grandfather Láios, a Hungarian Jew. Only later would he learn that Láios had ordered his son, Luiz s father, to leap from a train taking them to a Nazi death camp, while Láios himself was carried on to his death.
What Luiz did know was that his father s melancholia haunted the house he grew up in. As many children of trauma do, Luiz assumed responsibility for his parents happiness, and for a time blossomed into the family prodigy. But then, at a high point of outward success, he was brought low by a devastating mental breakdown.
This astonishing memoir interrogates a personal story of mental health through a family history of murder, dispossession, silence and the long echo of the Holocaust across generations animated by the love and compassion of a master storyteller.
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‘Brave, honest, devastating, and hopeful … Schwarcz is a masterful storyteller ARIANA NEUMANN
‘A lyrical and intimate portrait of the author s lifelong, harrowing battle with depression’ ABRAHAM VERGHESE
ISBN: 9781526653840
Dimension: 8in X 5in
Pages: 240