The remembered soldier
Daanje, Anjet, 1965-2025
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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 recognises Noon as her husband, the photographer Amand Coppens, and takes him home against medical advice. But their miraculous reunion doesn't turn out the way that Julienne wants her envious friends to believe. Only gradually do the two grow close, and Amand's biography is pieced together on the basis of Julienne's stories about him. But how can he be certain that she's telling the truth?
Main title:
The remembered soldier / Anjet Daanje ; translated by David McKay.
Author:
Daanje, Anjet, 1965-, authorMcKay, David, translator
Work:
Imprint:
Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2025.©2025
Collation:
562 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes:
First published in English in the USA by New Vessel Press 2025.Translated from the Dutch.
ISBN:
9781761380136 (Australian paperback)9781915590053 (UK edition)9781761386251 (ebook)
Dewey class:
839.3137F
Language:
EnglishDutch
Subject:
BRN:
2816254