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Enemies, a Love Story
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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.
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.
A film of the same title, based on the book and directed by Paul Mazursky, was released in 1989.
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