Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Publication Year
1986
ISBN
9780394747231
Pages
159 pages
Genre
biography
Format
graphic novel
Item Type
Nonfiction
Annotation
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 parent's 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.
Grade Level
9-12
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Culture/Ethnicity; Disability and Health; Family member death; Immigrants and refugees; Mental illness; Illness; death of a child; death of a mother; immigrant parents; family separation; adult with depression; suicide; heart disease; diabetes
Main Character
adult male
Race/Ethnicities
White (Polish)
Family Formation
father
Awards
Best Books for Young Adults, 1986
Graphic Novels: Selected Titles for Children and Teens, 2013 High SchoolAge and Older
Tell Them We Remember: Selected Literature for Children and Teens about the Holocaust and World War II, 2007 Hard Truths: Fiction for Young Adults
Alaska Battle of the Books, 2009
High School
Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award, 1988
Keywords
Holocaust; Auschwitz; Poland; World War II; Jewish; Judaism; memories; father-son relationship; survival
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Spiegelman, Art, "Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History" (1986). Diverse Families. 1937.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1937