Enemies, a love story

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.

First sentence: HERMAN BRODER turned over and opened one eye.

Year

1972

Language

English

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Editions

5

Pages

288

ISBN

9780374515225

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