num_pages: 626
description: Three stories are a young Southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant Jew and a beautiful Polish woman; and of an awful wound in that woman's past--one that impels both Sophie and Nathan toward destruction.From the Trade Paperback edition.
language: English
title: Sophie's Choice
titlecomplete: Sophie's Choice
characters: Nathan Landau, Sophie Zawistowska, Stingo
genres: Historical, Banned Books, War, Literature, Novels, World War II, Holocaust, Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 89740
places: Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn, New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction (Hardcover), awardedAt: 284025600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Bantam