The Twilight World
Discover the first novel from the iconic filmmaker Werner Herzog
$28.71
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
11 July 2023
Summary
The first novel from legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog, a hallucinatory tale inspired by the true story of a stranded Japanese soldier in WWII.
1944- Lubang Island, the Philippines. With Japanese troops about to withdraw, Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda was given orders by his superior officer- Hold the island until the Imperial army’s return. You are to defend its territory by guerrilla tactics, at all costs.
So began Onoda’s long campaign. Soon weeks turned into months, months into y…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529116243 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529116244 |
| Author: | Werner Herzog, Michael Hofmann |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 11 July 2023 |
| Weight: | 110g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 10mm |
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Critics Review
Beautiful… Nobody else could have written The Twilight World. It is pure Herzog * Sunday Times *
Herzog’s writing bristles with the same eerie and uncompromising energy as his films. His jungle pulses with hallucinatory life * Guardian *
An enthralling novel that explores the nature of time and warfare with great mastery * Mail on Sunday *
A mesmerising account * Financial Times *
Herzog’s skills as a filmmaker and dramatist serve the narrative well… In spare, elegant prose, he analyses how isolation effects Onoda… The Twilight World is an austere book, and a wise one * Literary Review *
The Twilight World…is very cinematic: indeed, it feels like a film unspooling inside Herzog’s head as you read * Daily Telegraph *
This is Herzog’s debut novel - and it is beautifully crafted, a literary jewel set to sparkle against the backdrop of his monumental career in cinema * i *
Herzog…brilliantly blends fact and fiction in this fever dream of a novel, which shimmers with the single-minded strangeness of Onoda’s thoughts and feelings * Daily Mail *
The true story is extraordinary in its own right, but Herzog’s concise yet meandering account of unending loyalty, resilience and desolation transmutes Onoda’s personal history into a poetic tragedy * Eastern Daily Press *
(praise for Of Walking In Ice:) Surely the strangest, strongest walking book I know, it tells the story of a winter pilgrimage, made in desperation and in hope. At once a diary, a blizzard of weather and memories, and the record of a ritual: only Herzog could have written this weird, slender classic – Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland
About The Author
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog was born in Munich on September 5, 1942. He grew up in a remote mountain village in Bavaria and studied History and German Literature in Munich and Pittsburgh. He made his first film in 1961 at the age of 19. Since then he has produced, written, and directed more than fifty feature- and documentary films, such as AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD (1972), NOSFERATU (1978), FITZCARRALDO (1982), LESSONS OF DARKNESS (1992), LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY (1997), MY BEST FIEND (1999), INVINCIBLE (2000), GRIZZLY MAN (2005), ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD (2007) or CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS (2011). Werner Herzog has published more than a dozen books of prose, and directed as many operas. Werner Herzog lives in Munich and Los Angeles.
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