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Sophie's Choice
William Styron's Sophie's Choice, a National Book Award winner and a landmark of American literary fiction, is set in Brooklyn in 1947. Stingo, a young Southern writer, rents a room in a boarding house and is drawn into the volatile love affair of Nathan Landau, a charismatic and unstable Jewish man, and Sophie Zawistowska, a Polish Catholic who survived Auschwitz. As Stingo learns her history piece by piece, the novel moves between postwar New York, a trip to the South, and wartime Poland and the camp. It asks how guilt, memory and love endure after atrocity. Among award winning books about the Holocaust, it is both widely read and sharply debated, because of how it frames suffering, evil and who may imagine them.