Sophie's Choice is a novel by William Styron published in 1979. It concerns a young American Southerner, an aspiring writer, who befriends the Jewish Nathan Landau and his beautiful lover Sophie, a Polish (but non-Jewish) survivor of the Nazi concentration camps. An immediate bestseller and the basis of a successful film, the novel is often considered both Styron's best work and a major novel of the twentieth century. The difficult decision that shapes the character Sophie is sometimes used as an idiom. A "Sophie's Choice" is a tragic choice between two unbearable options.

This is one of the most beautiful novels ever written and will be one of my all time favourites . Read it and weep!

Reserved for the OZVBB Round 24

Requested via the OZVBB and posting today to Gympie Queensland.

Received yesterday - thanks jeniwren! I'm particularly looking forward to reading this following your glowing recommendation! :-)

Placed in the Aussie 3kg Bookbag.

Taken from the bag.