When Marina dies, Nina is summoned to Moscow to accept an award on behalf of the regiment from Stalin. As she experiences sorority for the first time in her life, Nina falls in love with a fellow pilot, the educated and beautiful Moscovite Yelena Vetsina. When the Soviet Union go to war with Nazi Germany, Nina is recruited to Marina Raskova’s famed all-female aviation regiment. After Nina’s father tries to drown her in Lake Baikal, she seeks out “the opposite of drowning” (40) and trains to be a pilot. Nina grew up in the wilds of Siberia in a dysfunctional family headed by an alcoholic father. Ian and Nina embark on a sexual relationship however, Nina repeatedly shuns Ian’s pleas for further commitment.Īnother narrative strand focuses on the life of Nina. There, Tony scores a job in the antiques shop while Ian and Nina attempt to track down the Huntress. After learning from the Huntress’s mother that her daughter, Lorelei Vogt, is in America sending missives from McBride’s Antiques, the trio travel to Boston. Along with Tony Rodomovsky and Nina Markova-a former Soviet pilot and Graham’s estranged wife-Graham searches for the Huntress, an untried Nazi war criminal who killed his younger brother Sebastian in cold blood. The first strand, set in 1950, takes the perspective of British war correspondent Ian Graham. The novel has three distinct narrative strands, each written in third-person from the perspective of a different narrator.
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