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The Twilight World: A Novel - 9780593490280
Penguin Books
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The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who defended a small island in the Philippines for twenty-nine years after the end of World War II. In 1997, Werner Herzog was in Tokyo to direct an opera. His hosts asked him, Whom would you like to meet? He replied instantly: Hiroo Onoda. Onoda was a former soldier famous for having quixotically defended an island in the Philippines for decades after World War II, unaware the fighting was over. Herzog and Onoda developed an instant rapport and met many times, talking and unraveling the story of Onodas long war. At the end of 1944 on Lubang Island, with Japanese troops about to withdraw, Onoda stayed behind under orders from his superior officer. For years, Onoda continued to fight his fictitious warat first with other soldiers, and then, finally, alone, a character in a novel of his own making. In The Twilight World, Herzog immortalizes and imagines Onodas years of absurd yet epic struggle in an inimitable, hypnotic stylepart documentary, part poem, and part dreamthat will be instantly recognizable to fans of his films. The result is a novel completely unto itself: a glowing, dancing meditation on the purpose and meaning we give our lives.
- | Author: Werner Herzog
- | Publisher: Penguin Books
- | Publication Date: Jun 13, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 144 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0593490282
- | ISBN-13: 9780593490280
- Author:
- Werner Herzog
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books
- Publication Date:
- Jun 13, 2023
- Number of pages:
- 144 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0593490282
- ISBN-13:
- 9780593490280