katie_ellen 's review for:

Sophie's Choice by William Styron
5.0

There are no words. What Styron does with language in this novel is unbelievable. How can one story be both the most beautiful and the most horrible at the same time? There are so many important historical notes here ... the parallel he draws between southern slavery and the Holocaust and the focus on Polish history during WWII in particular. He presents an appropriately complicated portrayal of guilt, of desire, of evil.