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A graphic memoir in which Jews are drawn as mice and Nazis as cats
1986Steady paceDark
What it is about
Art Spiegelman interviews his father Vladek, a Holocaust survivor, about his life in Poland and in Auschwitz. The book also shows the difficult relationship between father and son. Spiegelman draws Jews as mice, Germans as cats and Poles as pigs.
Who will enjoy it
Readers who want a major graphic memoir.
What you will get
A landmark book. It won a special Pulitzer Prize in 1992.
The Complete Maus Facts: Pages, Genre and Setting
Genre
Nonfiction · Holocaust · Graphic memoir · Father and son
Length
296 pages · ≈ 8 h
More about this book
Characters
Art Spiegelman and his father Vladek.
Setting
Poland during World War II, and New York in the 1970s and 1980s.
What makes it different
It tells history using animal figures in comic form.
Feel
Powerful, harrowing and honest.
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