Maus: A Survivor’s Tale

Maus: A Survivor’s Tale is a transcendent work of art that was the first graphic novel to win the Pulitzer Prize. Art Spiegelman’s masterpiece tells the story of his father, Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, and the author’s tortured relationship with him. Vladek’s harrowing tale of survival and loss is rendered in Spiegelman’s stark black-and-white artwork, with the Jews drawn as mice and the Nazis as cats. An astonishing mixture of biography, history, and psychological insight, Maus changed the world’s perception of what comics can achieve — and remains one of the most important books of the 20th century.