Mikhail Popov’s novel “Na kresykh skhodnih” (“On the Eastern Borders”) recreates the picture of the grandiose partisan movement in Belarus during the Great Patriotic War, highlighting the theme of the people’s war against the German occupiers. In the center of events is a simple Belarusian village, where, under the yoke of Nazism, individual human destinies are intertwined into a complex, dramatic saga.