De finalisten vertaalde literatuur bij the National Book Award in Amerika zijn zojuist bekendgemaakt. The Remembered Soldier van Anjet Daanje blijkt er een van te zijn. Lees: National Book Awards 2025 - National Book Foundation
Wie van de vijf genomineerden gaat winnen wordt op 19 november bekendgemaakt. Dit gebeurt tijdens een ceremonie met diner in New York. Anjet Daanje zal daar zelf niet bij aanwezig zijn, de vertaler waarschijnlijk wel.
Intussen is de Engelse vertaling ook in Nederland te koop, bijvoorbeeld via hier: The Remembered Soldier.
Ook uit de USA:
"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 realize, 'is built on quicksand, one false step and they'll drown
together.'"
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.
