Enemies, A Love Story

Interesting Facts

• The novel is imbued with the atmosphere of postwar New York, where the protagonists, uprooted from their former lives, strive to rediscover themselves amid the shadows of the past and the ghosts of a lost Europe.
• At the heart of the narrative lies a complex love triangle, in which each character bears the mark of survival, guilt, and an insatiable longing for love, as if trying to resurrect lost happiness in a new world.
• The language of the novel is rich with subtle irony and profound psychological insight, allowing the reader to delve into the innermost corners of the characters’ souls, whose fates are intertwined not only by passion but also by the tragedy of the Holocaust.
• The book resonates with the motif of eternal exile: even in emigration, the protagonists remain prisoners of their memories, and their inner conflict becomes a reflection of an entire generation’s pain.
• The author masterfully weaves Jewish traditions and philosophical reflections on good and evil, on forgiveness and the impossibility of forgetting, into the narrative, creating a polyphony of voices, each resonating with unique strength and truth.