Sophie's Choice

by William Styron · first published 1979

Sophie's Choice is a 1979 novel by American author William Styron, the author's last novel. It concerns the relationships among three people sharing a boarding house in Brooklyn: Stingo, a young aspiring writer from the South; Jewish scientist Nathan Landau; and the latter's eponymous lover Sophie, a Polish-Catholic survivor of the German Nazi concentration camps, whom Stingo befriends. Sophie's Choice won the US National Book Award for Fiction in 1980. The novel was the basis of a 1982 film of the same name.

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Genre:

Philosophical fiction

Original language:

English

Reader rating:

★ 3.4 / 5 (9 on Open Library)

Year page:

1979