Annotation
"First published in 1979, this novel opens with Stingo, a young southerner, journeying north in 1947 to become a writer. It leads us into his intellectual and emotional entanglement with his neighbors in a Brooklyn rooming house: Nathan, a tortured, brilliant Jew, and his lover, Sophie, a beautiful Polish woman whose wrist bears the grim tattoo of a concentration camp ... and whose past is strewn with death that she alone survived."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Awards
1980 National Book Awards
Characters
| Name | Sophie |
| Gender | Female |
| Traits | Polish |
| Immigrant | |
| Holocaust survivor | |
| Genre | Historical Tragedy Classic Literary Fiction Coming of age |
| Topics | Moral dilemmas Survival Holocaust survivors War crimes Immigrants Love-hate relationships Personal tragedy |
| Setting | Flatbush, New York |