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Sophie's Choice

William Styron

1

award won

16

score

#261 of 8,085 books · #133 in Fiction

Won the National Book Award for Fiction (1980). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.

As the fierce lovemaking and fights of Nathan, a paranoiac Jewish intellectual, and Sophie, a Polish-Catholic concentration-camp survivor, intensify, Stingo, a writer who lives below them in a cheap rooming house, becomes more and more involved in their lives.

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Publisher
New York : Random House
ISBN-13
9784102360026
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Holocaust trauma and survivalLove triangleGuilt and moral choice
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