num_pages: 144
description: Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spieglman's Maus introduced readers to Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and History itself. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiararity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive.This second volume, subtitled And Here My Troubles Began, 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.
language: English
title: Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
titlecomplete: Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
characters: Vladek Spiegelman, Anja Spiegelman, Mala Spiegelman, Art Spiegelman
genres: Historical, Biography, World War II, Comics, Holocaust, Nonfiction, War, History, Memoir, Graphic Novels
ratings_count: 145624
places: Auschwitz, Catskill Mountains, New York, New York (State), Poland
series: Maus
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Harvey Awards
category: Best Graphic Album of Previously Published Material AND nominated for Special Award for Excellence in Presentation, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Prix du Festival d'Angoulême
category: Alph-art du meilleur album étranger, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Urhunden Prize
category: Foreign Album, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Biography/Autobiography, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards
category: Best Graphic Album: Reprint
publisher: Pantheon