The movie was Oscar-nominated and the book was banned in libraries across the States. This heartbreaking, compassionate and controversial novel interweaves themes of survivor guilt, madness and betrayal.

Informationen zum Autor Born in Newport News, Virginia, in 1925, William Styron was educated at Duke University. He served in the Marine Corps during the last war, and was recalled to service during the Korean War. After 1952, he lived mainly in Europe, before settling in a rural part of Connecticut. He died in 2006. Klappentext In this extraordinary novel! 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. Zusammenfassung In this extraordinary novel, 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. 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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In this extraordinary novel, 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.