Maus I: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman

A groundbreaking and deeply influential graphic memoir by Art Spiegelman recounting his father’s experiences surviving the Holocaust during World War II. Blending biography, history, and visual storytelling, Maus portrays Jews as mice, Nazis as cats, and other groups as different animals, creating a stark symbolic framework for one of history’s greatest atrocities.

The book moves between Vladek Spiegelman’s memories of survival in occupied Europe and the complicated relationship between father and son in the present day, exploring trauma, memory, guilt, survival, and generational inheritance. Emotionally powerful and formally innovative, Maus helped redefine the possibilities of the graphic novel as a serious literary and historical medium.

Winner of a Pulitzer Prize, this modern classic is essential reading for those interested in Holocaust history, memoir, visual storytelling, and the enduring psychological legacy of war and genocide.