Reflective novel set in Denmark, France and Canada
Sophie’s Choice
Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau, Brooklyn
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): Early/Mid 20th Century
The novel opens with Stingo, a young southerner, journeying north in 1947 to become a writer. It leads us into his intellectual and emotional entanglement with his neighbors in a Brooklyn rooming house: Nathan, a tortured, brilliant Jew, and his lover, Sophie, a beautiful Polish woman whose wrist bears the grim tattoo of a concentration camp…and whose past is strewn with death that she alone survived.
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