{"product_id":"the-remembered-soldier-by-anjet-daanje-1","title":"The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTTHE NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2025\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTHE NEW YORK TIMES “The Best Historical Fiction Novels to Read Right Now” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 2025 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'A novel of epic scope that resonates powerfully while wars of tragic loss continue to be fought on multiple fronts, including in Europe. Daanje exhibits brilliant powers of reconstitution in her descriptions of the war’s aftermath and the blighted landscapes that it left behind.’ Tobias Grey in The Financial Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn extraordinary love story and a captivating novel about the power of memory and imagination. Flanders 1922.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003ePublication: 21 May 2026, Scribe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781917189668\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 576 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57367827284350,"sku":null,"price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781917189668.jpg?v=1777972196","url":"https:\/\/www.davids-bookshops.co.uk\/products\/the-remembered-soldier-by-anjet-daanje-1","provider":"David's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}