Remembered Soldier

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An 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.

'A soldier without his memory; a wife in search of her missing husband ... In Daanje's hands, and in McKay's intuitive translation, the ravages and shellshock of the First World War are superbly traced - but the big question at the heart of this novel is how far humans will go in order to love.'
-The International Booker Prize 2026 judges

'I've never encountered a novel so intensely realistic yet so dreamily rendered. The Remembered Soldier is absolutely singular and utterly bewitching. I could have read it forever.'
-Daniel Kraus, New York Times bestselling author of Whalefall and Angel Down

'Haunting, powerful ... This provocatively labyrinthine novel dissects the consciousness of an amnesiac veteran of World War I who has spent four years in a Belgian asylum only to be retrieved by a woman who insists she is his wife ... This marriage, he comes to realise, "is built on quicksand, one false step and they'll drown together."'
-The New York Times

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781761380136
Published: June 2025

Number of pages: 592
Width: 154 mm
Height: 234 mm
Depth: 40 mm

Publisher: Scribe Publications