#1 New York Times bestseller • National Book Award winner • A modern classic of love and survival, Sophie’s Choice follows a young writer drawn into the orbit of a Holocaust survivor and her brilliant, unstable lover in postwar Brooklyn, and into the horrors of her complicated past in Nazi-occupied Poland. Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant Jew and a beautiful Polish woman; and of an awful wound in that woman's past—one that impels both Sophie and Nathan toward destruction.