Anjet Daanje – författare & böcker

Storkens och dromedarens sång

3

Inbunden, Svenska, 2025

269 kr

KORAD TILL 2000-TALETS BÄSTA NEDERLÄNDSKA ROMAN (NRC Handelsblad 2025)

Eliza May Drayden växer upp under enkla förhållanden i det tidiga 1800-talets Yorkshire. Tillsammans med sina systrar Millicent och Helen flyr hon in i fantasins värld. När Eliza och Millicent efter många refuser lyckas få varsin roman utgiven, under manlig pseudonym, blir Millicents en stor framgång medan Elizas stämplas som sjuk och förkastlig.

Eliza drar sig undan från världen, men ryktena om henne och hennes roman har fått eget liv och fortsätter att gäcka läsare mer än 100 år efter hennes död. I elva kapitel berättas historien om Elizas liv genom elva olika människor som på olika sätt kommit att beröras – eller kanske hemsökas – av henne. Var hon en omoralisk skandalförfattare? Ett missförstått geni? De märkliga berättelserna går inte ihop – särskilt inte de som handlar om hennes död.

”Storkens och dromedarens sång” är en roman om döden och livet, om kärlek och sorg. Om det oförklarliga och mystiska, men också om det allra mest mänskliga. Och om historieberättandet som det enda som kan hålla människan vid evigt liv.

"Redan efter denna första historia är jag helt golvad ... När matematikern Anjet Daanje spelar ut hela sitt naturvetenskapliga och konstnärliga register inser jag att det kan vara den bästa bok jag läst på flera år." Borås Tidning

"Det [är] verkligen är en sällsynt bra roman hon har skrivit. En vars nästan 800 sidor det är en ren njutning att läsa i Joakim Sundströms välgjorda översättning. Den förtjänar vartenda pris den tilldelas. Det kommer säkert att bli fler framöver." Tidningen Vi

"Ett imponerade romanbygge ... den psykologiska realismen [är] slående, suget i läsningen starkt och jag gråter i smyg när jag läser på ett kafé ... en storslagen berättelse om hur svårt det är att vara en älskande människa. Den är en hyllning inte bara till systrarna Brontë, utan till litteraturen, som den främsta formen för töjbara sanningar och svindlande lögner." Expressen

"En vindlande fantasi kring författaren Emily Brontë ... detta är en roman om stor ensamhet." Dagens Nyheter

“Om jag en enda gång under min karriär som litteraturkritiker skulle få dela ut sex stjärnor istället för de maximala fem, så skulle jag ge dem till ’Storkens och dromedarens sång’. En roman som gjorde mig så överväldigad att jag ännu inte har återhämtat mig helt.”

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Remembered Soldier

Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026

AvAnjet Daanje

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

238 kr

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTTHE NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2025THE NEW YORK TIMES “The Best Historical Fiction Novels to Read Right Now”PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 2025 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR‘A novel of epic scope that resonates powerfully while wars of tragic loss continue to be fought on multiple fronts, including in Europe. Daanje exhibits brilliant powers of reconstitution in her descriptions of the war’s aftermath and the blighted landscapes that it left behind.’ Tobias Grey in The Financial TimesAn 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.

The Song of Stork and Dromedary

AvAnjet Daanje

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

259 kr

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Song of Stork and Dromedary

AvAnjet Daanje

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

275 kr

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Inspired by the life and work of Emily Brontë, this masterful, multi-award-winning book — acclaimed as the best Dutch novel published this century — pulls readers into a narrative that redefines time itself.In the early 1800s, in Yorkshire, Eliza May Drayden and her sisters live far from the public eye, devoted to their shared love of reading and writing books. When, after dozens of rejections, Eliza May’s only novel, Haeger Mass, is finally published, it’s labelled as ‘ghastly’ and ‘immoral’. Over time, however, it is embraced by generations of readers as a masterpiece, and tales about its mysterious, reclusive author take on a life of their own.In eleven extraordinary chapters, the story of Eliza May — both before and after her death — unfolds: through the tales of people who met her; her sister’s letters; her biographers’ words; the pages of a mysterious notebook; and the lives that become intertwined with hers, even centuries later.In The Song of Stork and Dromedary, Anjet Daanje has crafted an absorbing literary mystery and an unforgettable meditation on love, life, loss, and the inexplicable nature of time. As the Brontës themselves did, Daanje shows us that storytelling is our only way to transcend death.

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Remembered Soldier

Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026

AvAnjet Daanje

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

194 kr

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTTHE NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2025THE NEW YORK TIMES “The Best Historical Fiction Novels to Read Right Now”PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 2025 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR‘A novel of epic scope that resonates powerfully while wars of tragic loss continue to be fought on multiple fronts, including in Europe. Daanje exhibits brilliant powers of reconstitution in her descriptions of the war’s aftermath and the blighted landscapes that it left behind.’ Tobias Grey in The Financial TimesAn 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.