ARGONAUT BOOKS

'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 realise, "is built on quicksand, one false step and they'll drown together."'The New York Times'Rich and beguiling ... In Daanje's novel, memory is mutable and collaborative … As Amand's experience of reality collapses under the weight of trauma, the prose - in its dearth of partitions and its slick slope of conjunctio...Read More