I went out to see my Father in Rego Park.
An edition of Maus I: A Survivor's Tale
(1986)
Maus I, My Father Bleeds History
A Survivor's Tale
by Art Spiegelman
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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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Maus
2015, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, Literatura Random House
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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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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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