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Maus: A Survivor's Tale

Author: Art Spiegelman
Year: 1992
Genre: General Fiction - Holocaust Literature
Awards: Pulitzer Prize (Special Awards and Citations, 1992), Eisner Award (Best Graphic Novel Reprint, 1992)

In this celebrated graphic novel, two stories are interwoven: that of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of World War II, and Art Spiegelman, his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father's past. In Maus, the Nazis are depicted as cats, and the Jews as mice.

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