Remembered Soldier (eBook)

Anjet Daanje (Autor)

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2025
576 Seiten
Scribe Publications Pty Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-76138-625-1 (ISBN)

Infos

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTTHE NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2025THE NEW YORK TIMES "e;The Best Historical Fiction Novels to Read Right Now"e;PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 2025 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARAn 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 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?In The Remembered Soldier, Anjet Daanje immerses us in the psyche of a war-traumatised man who has lost his identity. When Amand comes to doubt Julienne s word, the reader is caught up in a riveting spiral of confusion that only the greatest works of literature can achieve.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.6.2025
• Übersetzer: David McKay
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• ISBN-10: 1-76138-625-5 / 1761386255
• ISBN-13: 978-1-76138-625-1 / 9781761386251