Enemies, a Love Story
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 Cover of the 1997 paperback edition |
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| Author | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
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| Original title | Sonim, di Geshichte fun a Liebe |
| Translator | Aliza Shevrin and Elizabeth Shrub |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Yiddish |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Released | 1966 |
| Released in English | 1972 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback & Hardback) |
| Pages | 228 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-374-51522-0 |
- This article is about the novel. For the 1989 film, see Enemies, a Love Story (film).
Enemies, a Love Story (Yiddish: Sonim, di Geshichte fun a Liebe) is a novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer first published serially in the Jewish Daily Forward in 1966. The English translation was published in 1972.
[edit] Plot summary
Set in New York City in 1949, the novel follows Holocaust survivor Herman Broder. Throughout the war he survived in a hayloft, taken care of by his non-Jewish, Polish servant, Yadwiga who he later takes as his wife in America. Meanwhile, he has an affair with another Holocaust survivor, Masha. To Yadwiga, he poses as a traveling book-salesman despite the fact he is simply a ghost writer for a corrupt rabbi. He wanders about New York with a constant paranoia and perpetual desperation, made more complicated when his first wife from Poland, Tamara, who was thought to be killed in the Holocaust, comes to New York.
[edit] Adaptation
A film of the same title, based on the book and directed by Paul Mazursky, was released in 1989.
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