The Complete Maus
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father’s story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and succeeds in “drawing us closer to the bleak heart of the Holocaust” (The New York Times).
Maus is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek’s harrowing story of survival is woven into the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of
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Manufacturer: Pantheon
Release date: 19 November 1996
ISBN-10 : 0679406417 | ISBN-13: 9780679406419
Release date: 19 November 1996
ISBN-10 : 0679406417 | ISBN-13: 9780679406419
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