280 pages
English language
Published Sept. 13, 1998 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Noonday Press.
Enemies, a love story
4 stars
(1 review)
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.
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
- Married people -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
- Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
- Jewish men -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.