An edition of Maus I: A Survivor's Tale (1986)

Maus I, My Father Bleeds History

A Survivor's Tale

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An edition of Maus I: A Survivor's Tale (1986)

Maus I, My Father Bleeds History

A Survivor's Tale

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  • ★★★★ 4.5 (157 ratings)
  • 826 Want to read
  • 36 Currently reading
  • 218 Have read

An autobiographical and biographical cartoon in which the author explores his strained relationship with his father, an Auschwitz survivor, while also relating the story of his parents' experiences as Jews in wartime Poland, as told to him by his dad during a series of conversations they had years later in New York and Vermont.

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Pantheon Books
Language
English
Pages
159

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2015, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, Literatura Random House
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1997, Pantheon Books
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Maus I: a survivor's tale : my father bleeds history
1986, Pantheon Books
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Maus I, My Father Bleeds History: A Survivor's Tale
1986, Pantheon Books
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1986, Pantheon Books
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1986, Pantheon
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Edition Notes

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
741.59/73
Library of Congress
D810.J4 S643 1986, D810.J4S643 1986, D810.J4 S643 1992x, D804.3 .S66 1993, D810.J4 S643 2003

The Physical Object

Pagination
159 p. :
Number of pages
159

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL2739840M
ISBN 10
0394747232
LCCN
86042642
OCLC/WorldCat
317666423, 316330522, 13524314, 76961394, 25454032, 57348494, 988517539
LibraryThing
6046473
Wikidata
Q116301476
Goodreads
64229

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL2056818W

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Work Description

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.

Excerpts

I went out to see my Father in Rego Park.
added anonymously.

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