Enemies, A Love Story

Enemies, A Love Story () 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.
Critical reception.
"The New York Times" wrote that "Singer's marvelously pointed humor has turned black and bitter, the sex is flat, and there is little irony or selfconsciousness."
Adaptations.
The book was adapted for the theater by Sarah Schulman and premiered at the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia in 2007.
An eponymous film, based on the book and directed by Paul Mazursky, was released in 1989.
The novel was adapted as an opera by Ben Moore; it premiered at Palm Beach Opera in 2015.