On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of its first publication, here
is the definitive edition of the book acclaimed as -the most affecting and
successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust- (Wall Street Journal) and
-the first masterpiece in comic book history- (The New Yorker).
The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus 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. Maus 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 -drawing us closer