A profoundly emotional book, and a brave one.
The culmination of that path is this extraordinary book, which is beautiful, tragic, noble, piercingly honest, and ultimately redemptive--the product of a lifetime\'s reflection, given powerful literary shape in the refiner\'s fire by a master storyteller..
The Absent Moon is the story of his journey to that point and of his journey back from it, as Luiz learned to forge a more honest relationship with his own mind, with his family, and with their shared past.
But then, at a high point of outward success, Luiz was brought low by a devastating mental breakdown.
He found a home in the family silence--a home that he filled with books and with reading.
Young Luiz assumed responsibility for his parents\' comfort, as many children of trauma do, and for a time he seemed to be succeeding: he blossomed into the family prodigy, eventually growing into a groundbreaking literary publisher in São Paulo.
What Luiz did know was that his father André, who had emigrated to Brazil, was an unhappy and silent man.
After being put on a train to a German death camp with his son André, Láios ordered André to leap from the train to freedom at a rail crossing, while Láios himself was carried on to his death.
Only later in life did he learn that his grandfather, a devout Hungarian Jew, had defied his country\'s Nazi occupiers by holding secret religious services in his home. -- The New Yorker A literary sensation in Brazil, Luiz Schwarcz\'s brave and tender Memoir interrogates his ordeal of bipolar disorder in the context of a family story of murder, dispossession, and silence--the Long echo of the Holocaust across generations When Luiz Schwarcz was a child, he was told little about his grandfather and namesake, Láios--Luiz in Hungarian.
A profoundly emotional book, and a brave one
