Jordan Mechner has created some of the most influential video games of all time, including the wildly successful “Prince of Persia” series. He just wrote and illustrated a graphic novel titled “Replay: Memoir of an Uprooted Family,” which interweaves his personal history with the story of how his grandfather and father fled Vienna to escape the Nazis.
Book excerpt: ‘Replay’
By Jordan Mechner
Excerpted from “Replay” by Jordan Mechner.
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