Fic­tion

The Night Sparrow

  • From the Publisher
June 30, 2024

With the Nazi inva­sion of the Sovi­et Union, Ele­na Bruskina’s world col­laps­es. The ambi­tious uni­ver­si­ty stu­dent and her Jew­ish fam­i­ly are quick­ly forced into the Min­sk ghet­to where thou­sands are imme­di­ate­ly mur­dered, includ­ing her father and broth­er. Then her younger sis­ter is pub­licly exe­cut­ed on false charges and her moth­er is shot. Alone with her grief, Ele­na escapes the ghet­to, deter­mined to avenge her family’s deaths.

Head­ing to Moscow, she enrolls in the Red Army’s new­ly cre­at­ed Cen­tral Women’s Sniper Train­ing School. After rig­or­ous train­ing, she becomes a mem­ber of an all-female sniper pla­toon, a com­mu­ni­ty of brave young women will­ing to give their lives to defend their coun­try. Then Ele­na is cho­sen for a secret mis­sion — a dar­ing and high­ly dan­ger­ous plan to cap­ture the face of evil itself: Hitler. 

Inspired by the real-life female snipers and inter­preters in the Red Army dur­ing World War IIThe Night Spar­row is a por­trait of friend­ship, resilience, courage, and sac­ri­fice under extra­or­di­nary circumstances. 

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