In this extraordinary novel Stingo an inexperienced twentytwo year oldSoutherner takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafyBrooklyn sub... » 

In this extraordinary novel Stingo an inexperienced twentytwo year oldSoutherner takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafyBrooklyn suburb. There he meets Nathan a fiery Jewish intellectual andSophie a beautiful and fragile Polish Catholic. Stingo is drawn into the heartof their passionate and destructive relationship as witness confidant andsupplicant. Ultimately he arrives at the dark core of Sophies past hermemories of prewar Poland the concentration camp and the essence of herterrible secret her choice. «