Remembered Soldier

FINALIST for the 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for TRANSLATED LITERATURESuperb . . . In its dangerous admixture of truth and reassembled reality, 'The Remembered Soldier' develops an unforgettable picture of marital love.Sam Sacks inThe Wall Street JournalAn extraordinary love story and a captivating novel about the power of memory and imagination:Flanders 1922. After serving as a soldier in the Great War, Noon Merckem has lost his memory and lives in a psychiatric asylum. Countless women, responding to a newspaper ad, visit him there in the hope of finding their spouse who vanished in battle. One day a woman, Julienne, appears and recognizes Noon as her husband, the photographer Amand Coppens, and takes him home against medical advice. But their miraculous reunion doesnt turn out the way that Julienne wants her envious friends to believe. Only gradually do the two grow close, and Amands biography is pieced together on the basis of Juliennes stories about him. But how can he be certain that shes telling the truth? InThe Remembered Soldier, Anjet Daanje immerses us in the psyche of a war-traumatized man who has lost his identity. When Amand comes to doubt Juliennes word, the reader is caught up in a riveting spiral of confusion that only the greatest of literature can achieve.Reading group guide toThe Remembered Soldieris available for download free of charge at newvesselpress.com.