Description
In postwar London, where McCarthy-era paranoia has scattered writers and filmmakers across the Atlantic, an uneasy community of exiles tries to reinvent itself amid old rivalries and new loyalties. Norman Price—an academic turned hack writer—forms an unexpected friendship with an enigmatic German refugee, only to find that his growing isolation is not merely professional, but moral. As a personal crisis gathers around Jake Hersh, the novel turns on the question of what it really means to choose one’s enemies: ideology, identity, and survival collide in a story that is both sharply observed and darkly comic. With Mordecai Richler’s incisive wit and inventive social realism, the book explores exile, complicity, and the unsettling ways reputations are made—and broken—when politics enters the room.
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paperback
New Canadian Library
Published Jan 1, 1957
268 pages
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First Published
1957
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for A Choice of Enemies by Mordecai Richler.