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Sophie's choice

An account of a love triangle which explores the nature of modern life and love in a world colored by the aftermath of Nazi horrors at Auschwitz.

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  • "An account of a love triangle which explores the nature of modern life and love in a world colored by the aftermath of Nazi horrors at Auschwitz."@en
  • "The time is 1947. Sophie, a Polish Catholic beauty who survived Auschwitz, has settled in America. Stingo, a 22 year-old aspiring writer from Virginia, is drawn to Sophie and Nathan--a madly romantic couple whose instability and flamboyance utterly capture his imagination. The deeper Stingo sinks into these people's lives, the more he learns that each harbors terrible secrets."@en
  • "In Sophie's choice, three stories are told: that of a young Southerner, Stingo, who wants to become a writer; of a turbulent love-hate affair between Nathan Landau, a brilliant Jew, and a beautiful Polish woman, Sophie Zawistowski; and of an awful would in that woman's past--one that propels both Sophie and Nathan towards destruction."
  • "A Polish Catholic survives Auschwitz and settles in America."
  • "Styron's novel tells the tragic story of a beautiful Polish Catholic woman, who has survived the horrors of Auschwitz, and her tormented American lover Nathan."@en
  • "The story of Sophie Zawistowska, a Polish immigrant who had been held in a Nazi prison camp, and her struggles in a new country."@en
  • "Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There he meets Nathan, a fiery Jewish intellectual; and Sophie, a beautiful and fragile Polish Catholic. Stingo is drawn into the heart of their passionate and destructive relationship as witness, confidant and supplicant. Ultimately, he arrives at the dark core of Sophie's past: her memories of pre-war Poland, the concentration camp and - the essence of her terrible secret - her choice. 2004, c1979."@en
  • "A personalized view of the Holocaust and its devastating effect on one woman who survived it."
  • "Stingo, an inexperienced Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There he meets Nathan, a fiery Jewish intellectual, and Sophie, a beautiful and fragile Polish Catholic. Stingo is drawn into the heart of their passionate and destructive relationship as witness, confidant, and supplicant. Ultimately he arrives at the dark core of Sophie's past: her memories of pre-war Poland, the concentration camp and - essence of her terrible secret - her choice."
  • "Narrated by a young American writer, the novel concentrates on Sophie, a Polish Catholic who has survived Auschwitz and made a new life."@en
  • "In this extraordinary story, Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two-year-old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There he meets Nathan, a fiery Jewish intellectual, and Sophie, a beautiful and fragile Polish Catholic. Stingo is drawn into the heart of their passionate and destructive relationship as witness, confidant and supplicant. Ultimately he arrives at the dark core of Sophie's past: her memories of pre-war Poland, the concentration camp and - the essence of her terrible secret - her choice."

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  • "Bildungsromane"
  • "War stories"@en
  • "War stories"
  • "Fiction"
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  • "Sophie's choice"
  • "Sophie's choice"@en
  • "Sophie's Choice"

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