The absent moon : a memoir of a short childhood and a long depression
Schwarcz, Luiz2023
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When Luiz Schwarcz was a child, he was told little about his grandfather Laios, a Hungarian Jew. Only later would he learn that Laios had ordered his son, Luiz's father, to leap from a train taking them to a Nazi death camp, while Laios 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.
Main title:
The absent moon : a memoir of a short childhood and a long depression / Luiz Schwarcz ; translated by Eric M.B. Becker.
Author:
Schwarcz, Luiz, authorBecker, Eric M. B., translator
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.©2023
Collation:
xii, 226 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Portuguese.
ISBN:
9781526653833 (hbk)97815266538409781526653833
Dewey class:
616.85210092616.852
Language:
EnglishPortuguese
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Subject:
Schwarcz, LuizSchwarcz, Luiz -- FamilySchwarcz, Luiz -- Mental healthSchwarcz, Luiz -- Childhood and youthGrandchildren of Holocaust survivors -- Brazil -- BiographyPeople with bipolar disorder -- Brazil -- BiographyBipolar disorderDepressed persons -- Brazil -- BiographyDepression, MentalAutobiographies
BRN:
550237
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumaris Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 616.852 SCH | Available |