The absent moon a memoir of a short childhood and a long depression

"A literary sensation in Brazil and now a global publishing event, Luiz Schwarcz's wise and tender memoir bravely interrogates the story of his own ordeal of depression in the context of a family story of murder, dispossession, and silence-the long echo of the Holocaust across generations...

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Main Author: Schwarcz, Luiz (Author)
Other Authors: Becker, Eric M. B. (Translator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Portuguese
Published: New York : Penguin Press, 2023.
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Table of Contents:
  • At the summit
  • What remained in Bergen-Belsen
  • The separation
  • The first signs
  • Visit to the cemetery
  • Nicknames
  • Beethoven
  • The silence and fury
  • Stroszek
  • Mourning
  • In the dead of night
  • Side effects
  • The editor as fictional character
  • Memoirs
  • The absent moon.