The Complete Maus

Art Spiegelman

June 2007 / 0141014083 / Paperback

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Simply put, the best thing I have read this year. For those who don’t know it’s a graphic novel (and this is the first time I’ve felt something justified the term) about the struggle of the authors father to survive the Holocaust and also the relationship between the two men. Don’t be put off by the “mice as Jews, pigs as Poles, cats as Germans” style, it makes the story work so well. An absolute work of genius.