Tomorrow There Was War

Boris Vasiliev’s narrative is devoted to ordinary people who lived their everyday lives, with daily joys and worries, until the war burst into their lives—with all its tragedy and inhumanity. Peaceful life, shattered by war, strikes and affects much more powerfully than bloody battles and shelling exchanges. There wasn’t a single family for which wartime went unnoticed.

The book “Tomorrow Was the War” is about the pre-war time, when the sense of trouble was already hanging in the air, when young people were meant never to grow old—dying on the battlefield. All the hopes, dreams, plans so typical of youth were destined not to come true. The death of the young always contains something unnatural, which involuntarily stirs up the human soul into rebellion, and when it happens massively and on a grand scale, it becomes a true tragedy.

Against the backdrop of war, everyday concerns fade, losing their meaning. Questions arise about the meaning of all existence; each day may be the last, and growing up has to happen faster than anyone would like…