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Title: Absent Moon, The: A Memoir of a Short Childhood & a Long Depression
Author: SCHWARCZ LUIZ
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 03/04/2024
Imprint: BLOOMSBURY
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
‘A beautiful work that is in turn haunting, touching and redemptive’ SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE
A profoundly emotional book, and a brave one THE NEW YORKER
‘Generous in spirit, devoid of self-pity, and an authentic literary achievement’ ANDREW SOLOMON
When Luiz Schwarcz was a child, he knew very 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.
Compassionate and tender, The Absent Moon interrogates a personal story of inherited trauma through a family history of murder, silence and the long echo of the Holocaust across generations.
‘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: 9781526653895
Dimension: 8in X 5in
Pages: 240