''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 self-pity, and an authentic literary achievement'' ANDREW SOLOMON ------When Luiz Schwarcz was a child, he was told little about his grandfather L-s, a Hungarian Jew. Only later would he learn that L-s had ordered his son, Luiz-s father, to leap from a train taking them to a Nazi death camp, while L-s 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, sile
