Author: Michael Chabon | Narrator: David Colacci
Runtime: 26h 15m | Genre: Fiction
Joe Kavalier, a young Jewish artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdini-esque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-occupied Prague.
This is a love letter to the Golden Age of comics. Two cousins in New York create a superhero called The Escapist. It blends history with fiction seamlessly. We get the tragedy of the Holocaust mixed with the bright colors of the comic industry. It is a sweeping, energetic adventure about the need for escapism in dark times.