num_pages: 684
description: William Styron's narrative of artfully sustained suspense takes us back to pre-war Poland, to Auschwitz, through a past strewn with death that Sophie alone survived - until, at the core of this electrifying story, we reach the essence of Sophie's terrible secret - the choice she had to make.
language: English
title: Sophie's Choice
titlecomplete: Sophie's Choice
characters: Sophie Zawistowska, Stingo, Nathan Landau
genres: Historical, Literature, Banned Books, Classics, World War II, Novels, Holocaust, War, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 89708
places: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction (Hardcover), awardedAt: 284025600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Corgi