Khatyn

Ales Adamovich was a teenager fighting with the Belarusian partisans when he lived what would become Khatyn : the novel behind Elem Klimov's shattering film Come and See , whose screenplay Adamovich co-wrote. Built from war archives and the testimony of survivors, it tells the story of the fire villages of occupied Belarus, whole communities locked into barns and burned alive in reprisal for the partisan resistance The narrator, Flyora, returns in memory to the boy he was in 1943, when he came…— Google Books