Books like Enemies, A Love Story
In New York in 1949, Herman Broder, a Holocaust survivor married to the Polish servant who hid him, keeps a mistress in the Bronx, and then his first wife, believed dead, turns up alive.
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Mr. Sammler's Planet
Artur Sammler, a Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust by climbing out of a mass grave, now in his seventies, watches the Upper West Side of the late 1960s through one good eye.
The Magician of Lublin
Yasha Mazur, a Jewish magician and acrobat in 1870s Poland with a pious wife in Lublin and lovers along the road, plans a burglary to win a widow in Warsaw.
Sophie's Choice
In 1947 Brooklyn, Stingo, a young Southern writer, befriends his neighbours Sophie, a Polish Catholic survivor of Auschwitz, and her brilliant, unstable lover Nathan, and slowly learns the story Sophie has not been able to tell.
Everything Is Illuminated
A young American writer named Jonathan travels to Ukraine with a photograph, hoping to find the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis, guided by a translator whose English comes straight from the thesaurus.
While I Was Gone
Jo Becker, a veterinarian in a small Massachusetts town married to a minister, is unsettled when Eli Mayhew, who shared a Cambridge house with her in the 1960s, turns up at her practice, bringing back the housemate who was murdered there.
Luster
Edie, a young Black woman in New York with a failing publishing job and a painting habit, starts seeing a white man in an open marriage and ends up living in his New Jersey house with his wife and their adopted daughter.
Fatelessness
György Köves, a fourteen-year-old Budapest Jew, is taken off a bus in 1944 and deported to Auschwitz and then Buchenwald, and tells it all in a flat, almost uncomprehending voice.
The Collected Stories
Forty-seven stories Singer chose himself, from the demons and holy fools of the old Polish shtetl to the survivors living out their lives in Manhattan and Miami.
The Reader
In a West German city in the late 1950s, Michael Berg, fifteen, begins an affair with Hanna, a tram conductor more than twice his age, who one day disappears. Years later, as a law student, he sees her again, on trial.
Portnoy's Complaint
A Jewish-American man's obscene, hilarious complaint against his mother, his desire, and his inability to reconcile his appetites with his conscience.
The Victim
In a sweltering New York summer, with his wife away, Asa Leventhal is accosted by Kirby Allbee, a down-and-out acquaintance who accuses him of having ruined his life.
Little Children
In a Boston suburb, Sarah, an unhappy stay-at-home mother, and Todd, the handsome stay-at-home father the playground mothers call the Prom King, start an affair, while the town panics over a sex offender who has moved back in with his mother.