Букурія. Історія одного плавання

One day Bohdan, a civilian surgeon, becomes the chief medical officer of a battalion, and he names his crew's 'ship' Bukuriia, a funny, puzzling word that was supposed to mean a good emotion. In half a year of service, he says, he learned to pour bleach down toilets, accidentally gave a young conscript bleach to wash down his pills, was afraid to go to war with a friend, nearly broke up with his girlfriend, gave away all his savings, buried his career as a surgeon and gained ten kilos. Black despair and black humour sit side by side, along with talks with an interlocutor nobody has ever seen. It is a frank story of a man who made a hard choice and does not always know how to live with it.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

259 pages in the original

Genres

War, Autofiction (assigned by AI)

Set in

Ukraine

First published

2025 by Віхола

ISBN

9786178517403 (original)