Maus - A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
The second volume of the Pulitzer Prize-winning comic Maus moves us from the barracks of Auschwitz to the bungalows of the Catskills. Genuinely tragic and comic by turns, it attains a complexity of theme and a precision of thought new to comics and rare in any medium. Maus ties together two powerful stories: Vladek's harrowing tale of survival against all odds, delineating the paradox of daily life in the death camps, and the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. At every level this is the ultimate survivor's tale – and that too of the children who somehow survive even the survivors.
National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee (1991); Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Graphic Album: Reprint (1992); Harvey Awards for Best Graphic Album of Previously Published Work (1992); Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (1992); Prix du Festival d'Angoulême for Alph-art du meilleur album etranger (1993); Urhunden Prize for Foreign Album (1993)
About the Maus Series
Books in series order
- 1.Maus - A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History(1986)
- 2.Maus - A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began(1991)
- +MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic(2011)
Reading age: 13+ years
This series should be read in order.
Maus is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek's harrowing story of survival is woven into the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits. This astonishing retelling of our century's grisliest news is a story of survival, not only of Vladek but of the children who survive even the survivors. Maus studies the bloody pawprints of history and tracks its meaning for all of us.