THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER is longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026. Here’s the Booker judges’ citation: “A soldier without his memory; a wife in search of her missing husband—if you thought that all war stories were the same, not so. Some years after the Great War, Noon Merckem is found wandering in a field in Belgium, amnesiac and adrift. In time, he is claimed, but it is not so easy to return to an elusive past. In Daanje’s hands, and in McKay’s intuitive translation, the ravages and shellshock of the First World War are superbly traced—but the big question at the heart of this novel is how far humans will go in order to love, how fiercely they will fight for what they intend to have and to hold.”