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Foreword Reviews, maart 2025,
door Karen Rigby
Starred review
Amnesia and the complications of rebuilding a marriage inspire Anjet Daanje’s pensive historical novel The Remembered Soldier, in which a Belgian veteran of the Great War grapples with fragile versions of the truth. [...]
Noon’s apprehensive disorientation is echoed in the novel’s extended, multipart sentences, which stack clauses with tidal urgency. [...]
The novel’s interior focus magnifies fleeting compassion, disillusionment, a fresh honeymoon stage, and the tense exchanges that compose a marriage. Indeed, while others believe that the couple should feel lucky to have reunited, the reality is unsettling. [...]
How Julienne and Noon mold their circumstances into merciful love for each other is a moving testament to self-sacrifice.
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novel, mines the seams between a veteran’s traumas and restored hope.
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Kirkus Reviews, april 2025
[...] This is a story about healing a soldier’s mind after surviving years of carnage, and it is about restoring mutual trust and love after so much has happened [...] An absorbing tale for the patient reader.
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The Complete Review, 13 april 2025,
door M. A. Orthofer
[...] The Remembered Soldier is a fairly long novel, with Daanje reïnforcing the sense of a slow, steady, unrelenting moving-forward with a prose-style that |
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