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Longlisted for the 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for TRANSLATED LITERATURE "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 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-traumatized 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 of literature can achieve. Reading group guide to The Remembered Soldier is available for download free of charge at newvesselpress.com.