Maus

I have started reading 'Maus' by Art Spiegelman. It is the only graphic novel ever to win a Pulitzer Prize. Spiegelman uses the 'comic-book' format to tell the story of the Holocaust and never has a graphic novel been so touching. The books gives you, in no more time than it takes to read a Tin-tin or Asterix comic, a stark reminder of what people can do to other people when they move into a position of absolute power. Spiegelman has mice depicting the Jews, cats depicting the Nazis, dogs depicting the liberating Americans and for some reason, pigs depicting the Poles - I am still struggling with that last metaphor.


I am writing this post to urge all of you to get to amazon or flipkart now and order yourself a copy.