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.
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ue un escritor estadounidense. Además de por su libro de memorias "Esa visible oscuridad" (1990), Styron es conocido sobre todo por tres novelas: "Tendidos en la oscuridad" (1951), escrita a los veinticinco años; la ganadora del Premio Pulitzer "Las confesiones de Nat Turner" (1967), narrada por Nat Turner, el líder de una revuelta de esclavos que tuvo lugar en Virginia en 1831; y "La decisión de Sophie" (1979), en que trata el tema del Holocausto.