‘The first masterpiece in comic book history’ — The New Yorker
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever created, MAUS remains the only work in its form to receive that honour — a testament to Art Spiegelman’s extraordinary achievement in giving shape to the near-unspeakable.
At its heart is Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, whose story is told through a bold and haunting conceit: the Nazis rendered as cats, the Jews as mice. Woven through Vladek’s harrowing account of survival is his son’s own narrative — a cartoonist grappling with a tortured relationship with his aging father, with the guilt survival leaves behind, and with the meaning history carries for those who inherit it. Small domestic arguments, unhappy visits, and the bloody pawprints of the past all form part of the same unflinching portrait.
THIS COMBINED, DEFINITIVE EDITION BRINGS TOGETHER MAUS I: A SURVIVOR’S TALE AND MAUS II IN A SINGLE VOLUME.
‘The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust’ Wall Street Journal
‘A brutally moving work of art’ Boston Globe
‘No summary can do justice to Spiegelman’s narrative skill’ Adam Gopnik
‘Like all great stories, it tells us more about ourselves than we could ever suspect’ Philip Pullman
‘A capital-G Genius’ Michael Chabon
ISBN 13: 9780141014081
Author: Art Spiegelman
