Camelia Rose's Reviews > Maus

The 1992 winner of the Pulitzer Prize Maus is a graphic memoir of the author interviewing his father, a Polish Jew and Holocaust surivor. It’s a harrowing story because of the brutality of the Nazis, their collabrators and what they did to prisoners in the comcentration camps. It is emotionally impactful, even though the author deliberately makes his father sound matter-of-fact. The story is not only about how Mr and Mrs Spiegelman survived the Holocaust, but also their life after the war in the United States, the mother’s tragic end and the difficult relationship between the father and son.