Maus: A Survivor's Tale (Hardcover, 1986)
Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel depicting his father Vladek's experiences as a Polish Jew during the Holocaust. Rendered with Jews as mice and Nazis as cats, the two-volume work weaves Vladek's wartime survival story with Art's complicated present-day relationship with his aging father. Winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize Special Award in Letters.
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