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Sophie's Choice (National Book Award Winner)

by William Styron

Love, survival, and a past that reaches into the present

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    National Book Award winner

    The metadata states that Sophie's Choice won a National Book Award.

  • Bestseller

    #1 New York Times bestseller

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Love, survival, and a past that reaches into the present

Set in postwar Brooklyn, the novel brings together a young Southern writer, Sophie—a Holocaust survivor from Nazi-occupied Poland—and Nathan, her brilliant but unstable lover. Their intertwined lives connect three strands: the aspiring writer’s ambitions, Sophie and Nathan’s turbulent relationship, and the painful history Sophie carries. The book’s movement between these strands links personal love and survival with the lasting consequences of wartime violence.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in literary fiction set in postwar Brooklyn.
  • Readers drawn to novels connecting intimate relationships with the history of the Holocaust.
  • Readers who enjoy narratives bringing several character stories together.

Themes

Survival and memoryLove and conflictThe aftermath of warWriting and ambition

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Book overview

#1 New York Times bestseller - National Book Award winner - A modern classic of love and survival, Sophie's Choice follows a young writer drawn into the orbit of a Holocaust survivor and her brilliant, unstable lover in postwar Brooklyn, and into the horrors of her complicated past in Nazi-occupied Poland.

Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant Jew and a beautiful Polish woman; and of an awful wound in that woman's past--one that impels both Sophie and Nathan toward destruction.
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