Sophie’s Choice is a 1979 novel by William Styron. The novel is about three people sharing a boarding house in Brooklyn New York. These three people are main character Stingo, a young aspiring writer from the South and his Jewish scientist friend Nathan Landau along with his girlfriend Sophie.
Sophie is a Polish Catholic survivor of Auschwitz and most of the plot centers around the story of the tragic decision Sophie was forced to make in which she had to choose between which of her two children would be killed upon entering Auschwitz. Sophie’s Choice won the US National Book Award for fiction in 1980 and was the basis for a successful film of the same name in 1982.
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