Styron, William

A young American writer meets his neighbors, Jewish Nathan and Polish Sophie who reveals a very painful secret from her Holocaust past and an encounter with terrible evil.

This is the story of the extraordinary Sophie, a haunting young woman of endless passion and vibrant joy. It sewwps us into her loves, her fears, her sorrow and back through a past that Sophie alone survived until we reach the terrible secret that only Sophie survived.

Gives an account, based on the true story of a slave rebellion in 1831, of a noble man's moral decline.

This novel is based on the true story of an aborted slave rebellion in 1831.