Spoilers: Enemies, a Love Story is set in post-World War II New York City. It follows Holocaust survivor Herman Broder. Throughout the world war, he survived in a hayloft, taken care of by his non-jewish, polish servant, Padwiga who he later takes as his wife in America. Meanwhile, he is having an affair with another holocaust survivor, Masha. To Yadwiga, he poses as a travelling book-salesman despite the fact he is simply a ghost writer for a morally-corrupted rabbi. He wanders about New York with a constant paranoia and perpetual desperation, made more complicated by the fact that his first wife from Poland, Tamara, who was thought to be killed in the Holocaust comes to New York. The story essentailly involves Herman juggling the three women as he encounters an array of characters and problems hurtling to the conclusion. World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that engulfed much of the... New York City, officially named the City of New York, is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture. ... Concentration camp inmates during the Holocaust The Holocaust was Nazi Germanys systematic genocide (ethnic cleansing) of various ethnic, religious, national, and secular groups during World War II. Early elements include the Kristallnacht pogrom and the T-4 Euthanasia Program established by Hitler that killed some 200,000 people. ... America is usually meant as either: The Americas, a set of continents and islands between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, usually subdivided into: North America Central America and the Caribbean South America The United States of America. ...