The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale

On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of its first publication, here is the definitive edition of the book acclaimed as &quot;the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust&quot; (<i>Wall Street Journal</i>) and &quot;the first masterpiece in comic book history&quot; (<i>The New Yorker</i>) .<br><i><br></i>The Pulitzer Prize-winning <i>Maus</i> 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. <i>Maus</i> 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 &quot;drawing us closer to the bleak heart of the Holocaust&quot; (<i>The New York Times</i>) .<br><br><i>Maus </i>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 guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits. This astonishing retelling of our century's grisliest news is a story of survival, not only of Vladek but of the children who survive even the survivors. <i>Maus </i>studies the bloody pawprints of history and tracks its meaning for all of us.