Maus I

Art Spiegelman is a world-renowned comic artist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning Holocaust graphic novel, Maus.

The book is the best-selling first installment in the graphic novel, which has been called "the most poignant and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust" (Wall Street Journal) and "the first masterpiece in comic book history" (ComicsNow) (The New Yorker)

Maus, widely regarded as the finest graphic novel ever written, chronicles the author's father's terrifying experiences during the Holocaust, with Jews shown as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats.

Maus is a frightening story within a story, weaving the author's depiction of his troubled connection with his aging father into an incredible recounting of one of history's most horrible disasters. It's a remarkable survival story and a disarming look at the aftermath of trauma.

Maus is a novel that you cannot put down, not even to sleep. You are moved when two of the mice speak of love, and you cry when they suffer. You are slowly dragged into the delicate and captivating rhythm of an old Eastern European family's language as you progress through this short narrative of suffering, humor, and life's daily struggles, and when you end Maus, you are unhappy to have left that enchanting world.

Author: Art Spiegelman

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Maus-Survivors-Father-Bleeds-History/dp/0394747232/

Ratings: 4.7 out of 5 stars (from 4026 reviews)

Best Sellers Rank: #1,038 in Books

#1 in Military History Pictorials

#2 in WWII Biographies

#2 in Literary Graphic Novels (Books)