In this extraordinary novel Stingo an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner takes us back to the summer of 1947 & a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb There he meets Nathan a fiery Jewish intellectual; & Sophie a beautiful & fragile Polish Catholic Stingo is drawn into the heart of their passionate & destructive relationship as witness confidant & supplicant Ultimately he arrives at the dark core of Sophie's past her memories of pre-war Poland the concentration camp &
- the essence of her terrible secret
- her choice