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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 o
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Manufacturer: Penguin
Release date: 2 October 2003
ISBN-10 : 0141014083 | ISBN-13: 9780141014081
Release date: 2 October 2003
ISBN-10 : 0141014083 | ISBN-13: 9780141014081
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World's Best Known Books and Stories (476 books items)"Written by: Art Spiegelman Illustrated by: Art Spiegelman Published: 1980-1991 Publishers: Pantheon Books/Raw Number of Pages: 296 "I cannot forget it…ever since Hitler I don’t like to throw out even a crumb” "
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My friends (91 books items)"If I was asked to recommend a definite art piece about the Holocaust, this is where I would direct the inquirer to (haven't read Anne Frank nor seen Shoah yet, though). It's a very cleverly narrated graphic biography about the author's father as a Jew in Europe during the Second World War, and also a touching study about their uneasy relationship and of the process of the author finally starting to understand his father, after years of mistrust, through the interviews he conducted for this maste"
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