Enemies, A Love Story

This article is about the novel. For the 1989 film, see Enemies, A Love Story (film).
Enemies, A Love Story

First English edition
Author Isaac Bashevis Singer
Original title Sonim, di Geshichte fun a Liebe
Translator Aliza Shevrin and Elizabeth Shrub
Country United States
Language Yiddish
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date
1966
Published in English
1972
Media type Print (Paperback & Hardback)
Pages 228 pp
ISBN 0-374-51522-0
OCLC 31348418

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.

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, whom 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.

Adaptations

An eponymous film, based on the book and directed by Paul Mazursky, was released in 1989. The Manhattan apartment building with a curved, ivory facade in the movie is The Paterno, located at the intersection of Riverside Drive and 116th Street.

The novel was adapted as an opera by Ben Moore; it premiered at Palm Beach Opera in 2015.[1]

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