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Sophie’s Choice, novel by William Styron, published in 1979, that examines the historical, moral, and psychological ramifications of the Holocaust through the tragic life of a Roman Catholic survivor of Auschwitz. An award-winning film adaptation starring Meryl Streep was released in 1982. Set in the late 1940s, the novel is narrated by Stingo, a young Southern writer who is the author’s thinly veiled alter ego. In a boardinghouse in Brooklyn, New York, Stingo becomes friends with a pair of tormented lovers: Nathan Landau, a brilliant but unstable Jew, and Sophie Zawistowska, a beautiful and guilt-ridden Polish refugee. On a journey ...(100 of 149 words)

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