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Enemies, a love story

by Isaac Bashevis Singer · 1972

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Almost before he knows it, Herman Broder, refugee and survivor of World War II, has three wives; Yadwiga, the Polish peasant who hid him from the Nazis; Masha , his beautiful and neurotic true love; and Tamara, his first wife, miraculously returned from the dead. Astonished by each new complication, and yet resigned to a life of evasion, Herman navigates a crowded, Yiddish New York with a sense of perpetually impending doom.

FictionHolocaust survivorsJewish menJewsMarried peoplePolish JewsJewish fictionDomestic fictionFiction (fictional works by one author)