The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Chrabon, is a historical fiction book on how comic books got their start in the US. The book, which covers topics of comics, magic, and the art of escaping with themes of identity, greed, copyright law, unfair labor practices, and war. The protagonist, Sammy Klayman, a young Jewish man who lives in Brooklyn with his mother in 1939, and cousin, Josef Kvalier, who comes to America from Prague with a long journey from Prague and is a powerful influence on the creation of “The Escapist” comic book series by Josef and Sammy. Along the way, the book explores the history of comic books and the themes of escape artist (like Joe), a superhero/magician who fights for the weak (like Sammy), and humiliates Hitler with his strength and brainpower. The novel also includes a dual biography of two Jewish boys who escaped to America to avoid the pogrom, writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, the duo who created the popular character of Superman. The author's protagonist, Rosa Saksaksaksak, travels from Czechoslovakia to Antarctica to New York to Antarctica, with a page-turning adventure saga.