Who is Annie from The Case of Comrade Tulayev and what is their importance?

Annie is Stefan Stern's lover. She is from the faraway north and has shed her bourgeois upbringing to become a permanent revolutionary. She is twenty-five years old when she meets Stefan in Barcelona. She has straight shoulders and a straight neck, and she carries her head high. Annie's eyebrows are delicate and almost invisible because they are so pale, and she has straw-blond hair and slate-gray eyes. She is a useful partner to Stefan, both emotionally and also because she is adept at typing and proofreading his work. Annie is petrified when she discovers Stefan has been kidnapped.