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.
