Join us for an exciting evening to discuss translated literature. Whether you're a fan of literary fiction or just looking to try something new, this book club hopes to achieve just that. In November, we'll be discussing the International Booker Prize-longlisted and award-winning Dutch novel, The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje, translated from Dutch by David McKay.

** Please note that, as this is a longer book, we will be reading it in both our October and November book clubs. Our overall discussion will take place in November.

Date:
Thursday 26th of November

Venue:
Bookmarked, 47 Henleaze Road, BS9 4JU

Time:
Doors at 18:30. Discussion at 18:45. Finish at 19:45.

Tickets:
Attendance for the book club is free, but if you could register your place through the website, it helps us to gauge numbers. 

If you would like to buy a copy of the book, you can order it through us via hello@bookmarkedbristol.com

All you have to do is read the book and show up on the night. 

ABOUT THE BOOK

The Remembered Soldier

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 recognises 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-traumatised 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 works of literature can achieve.

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

Scribe are an independent publishing house who seek to publish high-quality literary fiction, translated works, and distinctive local voices.

https://scribepublications.co.uk/