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My Father Bleeds History (Maus: A Survivor's Tale #1)

My Father Bleeds History (Maus: A Survivor's Tale #1)

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My Father Bleeds History (Maus: A Survivor's Tale #1)

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Art Spiegelman

Publisher

Pantheon Books

Age Range

14+

Release Date

August 12, 1986

ISBN

0394541553

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A story of a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father's story and history itself.

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September 23, 2008 (Updated: June 04, 2026)

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Reader reviewed by Abz

i think this book is really great and it captures the story really well. the book came to my interest because of the name the swastika and the animals in the book. i think it would make a great film like The Boy in the Striped Pajamas even though the boy in the striped pajamas is very sad at the end they should make Maus a film 12a (so i can see it)

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August 23, 2006 (Updated: June 04, 2026)

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Reader reviewed by bookworm9

Telling the story of the Holocaust using mice (as Jews), pigs (as Nazis), and various other animals sounds like it should be taboo or else a picture book for young children, but Maus is neither, and it is spectacular. Spiegelman (in mouse form) jumps back and forth between his present day rocky relationship with his father and flashbacks to his father's life during the Holocaust in rivetting comic book form. I guarantee you will not be able to put this book down, and will be eager to read Maus II.

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