Sophie's Choice

Beschreibung

In post-war Brooklyn, three lives are drawn together by love, guilt and an unbearable secret. <BR><BR>In the summer of 1947, Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two-year-old Southerner, arrives at a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb. <BR><BR>There he meets Nathan, a fiery Jewish intellectual, and Sophie, a beautiful and fragile Polish Catholic. Drawn into the centre of their passionate and destructive relationship, Stingo becomes witness, confidant and supplicant as love, jealousy and emotional volatility gather around them. <BR><BR>At the heart of the novel lies Sophie's past: pre-war Poland, the concentration camp and the choice that has shaped the rest of her life. <BR><BR>National Book Award-winning Sophie's Choice is a modern literary classic about survivor's guilt, memory, desire, betrayal and moral consequence.

Moving between post-war Brooklyn and the devastation of Europe, William Styron's novel is compassionate, controversial and profoundly searching. <BR><BR>A classic Second World War novel and a work of historical literary fiction, it asks how love, guilt and survival can shape a life after catastrophe.

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