When Luiz Schwarcz was a child, he was told little about his grandfather and namesake L?ios – ‘Luiz’ in Hungarian. Only later would Luiz learn that L?ios had defied his country’s Nazi occupiers and ordered his son to leap from the train on the way to a German death camp, while L?ios himself was carried on to his death. Young Luiz assumed responsibility for his parents’ happiness, as many children of trauma do, and for a time he seemed to be succeeding. But then, at a high point of outward success, Luiz 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.
The absent moon
BiographyAuthor Luiz Schwarcz Published by Bloomsbury ISBN 9781526653895 EAN 9781526653895 Bic Code BM|HBTZ1 Cover Paperback
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