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Bloomsbury presents The Absent Moon by Luiz Schwarcz read by Theodore Copeland

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 selfpity and an authentic literary achievement ANDREW SOLOMON

When Luiz Schwarcz was a child he knew very little about his grandfather Lios a Hungarian Jew Only later would he learn that Lios had ordered his son Luizs father to leap from a train taking them to a Nazi death camp while Lios himself was carried on to his death What Luiz did know was that his fathers 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 authors lifelong harrowing battle with depression ABRAHAM VERGHESE