Publication date 1966 Pages 228 pp Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Published in English 1972 Originally published 1966 Genre Novel Country United States of America | |
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Original title Sonim, di Geshichte fun a Liebe Translator Aliza Shevrin and Elizabeth Shrub Media type Print (Paperback & Hardback) Adaptations Enemies, A Love Story (1989) Similar Isaac Bashevis Singer books, Yiddish Language books, Novels | ||
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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.
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- enemies a love story trailer paul mazursky
- Enemies a love story rehearsal
- Plot summary
- Adaptations
- References
Enemies a love story rehearsal
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.