The Absent MoonBy: Luiz Schwarcz A profoundly emotional book, and a brave one. The New Yorker A literary sensation in Brazil, Luiz Schwarczs brave and tender memoir interrogates his ordeal of bipolar disorder in the context of a family story of murder, dispossession, and silencethe long echo of the Holocaust across generations As a child, Luiz Schwarcz knew little about his grandfather and namesake, Lajos. Only later did he learn that Lajos, a devout Hungarian Jew,