The Diamond Eye Is A Page Turner, But I Have One Bone to Pick
It’s not a grisly war book. It’s a beautiful story of love, loss and the Ukrainian woman they called Lady Death.
Mila Pavlichenko was a 24 year old library researcher and single mother from Kyiv when Hitler’s Nazis bombed her beloved school.
Less than a year later, she’d become the deadliest woman sniper in history and was on her way to America to plead for help.
“Moments of intense humanity and love... It will leave you breathless…” — Elena Gorokhova; author, A Train to Moscow
It’s not a bloody/Rambo war novel, so you know…
Mila was just 15 when she was seduced by a man well over 30. A doctor, yet. And so she was married and a mother before her 16th birthday.
6 weeks after the child was born, he fled. Not ready for a wife and kid. Mila moved back in with her parents. Went back to school.
Her beautiful dark haired little boy, Slavka, is barely in the novel at all. He makes a brief appearance in the beginning. Again at the end, a young boy all arms and legs like a half grown puppy running, whooping, with arms…
