Book · 1979 · Fiction

Sophie's Choice

Name: Sophie's Choice
Author: William Styron

Vintage Books (Penguin Random House) · 562 pages

★ 6.8 editorial score

In a Brooklyn rooming house in 1947, a Southern writer falls in with Sophie, a Polish Catholic who survived Auschwitz, and her violent lover. The title is now English for an impossible decision.

Medium

Novel

Subject

Holocaust Choices and consequences Guilt

Setting

United States

Time

1979

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