Lit in Translation

The Remembered Soldier

De herinnerde soldaat

Anjet Daanje (born 1965)

Translated by David McKay

English editions

In English

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Near the Belgian front in the First World War, troops come upon a man without a scratch who has no idea of his own name; he ends up in a psychiatric institution. In 1922 a notice in the papers reunites him with his relatives. He is Amand Coppens, husband of Julienne and father of two, yet nothing of their marriage comes back to him, and his homecoming is unsettling for them both. Julienne describes the years they shared, he strives to be that person again, and a love grows between them stronger than the one that led to their wedding. Yet as he settles in, dreams of the trenches visit him more and more, hinting that he relished the cruelties he inflicted there.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
538 pages in the original
Genres
War, Love, Historical (assigned by AI)
Set in
Belgium, 1910s–1920s
First published
2019 by Passage
Author's age
54 when first published
ISBN

9789054523673 (original)

9781954404328 (New Vessel Press, United States)

9781761380136 (Scribe Publications, Australia)