Novel
Война под крышами
Not translated into English
Ales Adamovich · 1960
Synopsis
At the start of the German occupation, in the Belarusian town of Lesnaya Seliba, the occupier seizes the livestock and upsets family life, and families must choose between submitting and resisting. The teenager Tolya, his elder brother and their mother put themselves at the service of the partisans of the forest, like the young medical orderly Vladik; the young prepare to join the woods, while the older ones doubt that one can survive there.
Context
The novel appears in 1960 in the journal Droujba narodov and forms the first part of a dilogy about the partisans, completed in 1963 with Synovia oukhodiat v boï. The author said that his mother had written this book before him, through her own life: the character of Anna Mikhaïlovna Korzoun is inspired by her, and the narrative is regarded as entirely autobiographical. In 1967 Viktor Tourov made a film of the same title from it, with songs by Vladimir Vyssotski.
Who it is for
A war novel that opens a two-book set, to be read before its sequel; no French translation.
Prizes and reception
The author's first novel, since reissued with its sequel under the shared title Partisans.
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