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Sophie's Choice

William Styron
1979 · 562 pages

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.

★ 6.8