The Complete MAUS

<p><b>The first and only graphic novel to win</b><b> the Pulitzer Prize <i>MAUS</i> is a brutally moving work of art about a Holocaust survivor -- and the son who survives him</b><b><br><br> 'The first masterpiece in comic book history' <i>The New Yorker</i></b><br><br> <i>Maus</i> 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. Approaching the unspeakable through the diminutive (the Nazis are cats the Jews mice) Vladek's harrowing story of survival is woven into the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father.<br><br>Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits studying the bloody pawprints of history and tracking its meaning for those who come next.<br><br> <b>HAILED AS THE GREATEST GRAPHIC NOVEL OF ALL TIME THIS COMBINED DEFINITIVE EDITION INCLUDES <i>MAUS I: A SURVIVOR'S TALE</i> AND <i>MAUS II</i>. </b><br><b>___________________________________________________________________________</b><br><br><b>'The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust'</b><b> <i>Wall Street Journal</i></b><br><br><b>'A brutally moving work of art' <i>Boston Globe</i></b><br><br>'<b>No summary can do justice</b> to Spiegelman's narrative skill' Adam Gopnik<br><br> 'Like all great stories it <b>tells us more about ourselves than we could ever suspect</b>' Philip Pullman<br><br> '<b>A capital-G Genius</b>' Michael Chabon</p>