Sophie's Choice is a 1979
novel by American author
William Styron. It concerns the relationships between three people sharing a boarding house in
Brooklyn: Stingo, a young aspiring writer from the
South who befriends the
Jewish Nathan Landau and his lover Sophie, a Polish,
Catholic survivor of the German
Nazi concentration camps. The plot ultimately centers on a tragic decision that Sophie was forced to make on her entry, with her children, into
Auschwitz.