In the Shadow of No Towers

Format: Hardback
Length: 48 pages
Publication date: 03 September 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

For Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, were both deeply personal and profoundly political. In his first new book of comics since the groundbreaking Maus, In the Shadow of No Towers, Spiegelman offers a masterful and moving account of the events and aftermath of that tragic day. Spiegelman and his family witnessed the attacks firsthand in their lower Manhattan neighborhood: his teenage daughter had just started school days earlier, and they had lived in the area for years. However, the horrors they endured that morning were just the beginning for Spiegelman. His anguish was quickly replaced by a seething anger towards the U.S. government, which shamelessly exploited the events for its own preconceived agenda. He responded in the way he knows best: in an oversized, two-page-spread format reminiscent of the earliest newspaper comics, which he says provided solace to him after the attacks. Through drawings and text, Spiegelman conveys the unfathomable enormity of the event, the obvious and insidious effects it had on his life, and the extraordinary, often hidden changes that have been enacted in the name of post-9/11 national security and that have begun to undermine the very foundation of American democracy.

Weight: 1314g
Dimension: 255 x 366 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780241463970