The Complete MAUS

A Survivors Tale

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4 stars (1 review)

1 edition

A banned book worth reading

4 stars

Significantly better than I expected. Like many I first came to know of this book a number of years ago when it was "banned" for having nudity. Like so many "banned" books I feel its often a ploy by the publishing company to sell more books, particularly when they are books like this that have been in publicization for a long time.

I expected it to need the help because it wasn't that great. However I found it a pleasant read, granted you probably aren't supposed to get a pleasant read out of a holocaust book but I digress. I really appreciated the Vladek character when is so much a character of a miserly Jewish American that even the author notes he isn't sure he should include it because of how stereotypical it is.

A good look at the insight of a particularly family and there making, and no so …

Subjects

  • Comics & graphic novels, nonfiction, general
  • World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, jewish
  • Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945)
  • Holocaust survivors
  • Children of holocaust survivors