Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction,The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clayis a heart-wrenching story of escape, love and comic-book heroes set in Prague, New York and the Arcticfrom the author ofWonder Boys.One night in 1939, Josef Kavalier shuffles into his cousin Sam Clays cramped New York bedroom, his nerve-racking escape from Prague finally achieved. Little does he realise that this is the beginning of an extraordinary friendship and even more fruitful business partnership. Together, they create a comic strip calledThe Escapist, its superhero a Nazi-busting saviour who liberates the oppressed around the world.The Escapistmakes their fortune, but Joe can think of only one thing: how can he effect a real-life escape, and free his family from the tyranny of Hitler?Michael Chabons exceptional novel is a thrilling tight-rope walk between high comedy and bitter tragedy, and confirms his position as one of the most inventive and daring of contemporary Amer