Maus

A single, monumental issue from Giulio Einaudi editore, Maus is the Italian-language edition of Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel, which masterfully recounts his father’s experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor through the stark, powerful metaphor of Jews as mice and Nazis as cats. Though this specific series began in 2000, the work itself remains a landmark of the medium, proving comics could be a vessel for profound historical testimony and personal memory.