The Remembered Soldier
Anjet Daanje · Literary Fiction · 720 pages
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INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE LONGLIST NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST—THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2025—THE WALL STREET JOURNAL THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2025—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 2025 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOKS OF 2025 —THE NEW YORK TIMES "The Best Historical Fiction Novels to Read Right Now." "Superb . . . In its dangerous admixture of truth and reassembled reality, 'The Remembered Soldier' develops an unforgettable picture of marital love."—Sam Sacks in The Wall Street Journal 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 recognizes Noon as her husband, the photographer Amand Coppens, and takes him home against medical adv
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