Sophie's Choice (novel)

Sophie's Choice

First edition
Author	William Styron
Language	English
Publisher	Random House
Publication date	1979
Publication place	United States
Pages	562
ISBN	0-394-46109-6
OCLC	4593241

Sophie's Choice is a 1979 novel by American author William Styron, the author's last novel. It concerns the relationships among three people sharing a boarding house in Brooklyn: Stingo, a young aspiring writer from the South, Jewish scientist Nathan Landau, and his lover, Sophie, a Polish-Catholic survivor of the German Nazi concentration camps, whom Stingo befriends.

Sophie's Choice won the US National Book Award for Fiction in 1980.^[1] The novel was the basis of a 1982 film of the same name. It was controversial for the way in which it framed Styron's personal views regarding the Holocaust.