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Aug 23, 2021 · Very concise and powerful short novel about Hiroo Onada the famed Japanese soldier who kept on fighting in the islands of the Philippines, decades after the end of the Pacific War, by the acclaimed Werner Herzog. A unique perspective on the hardships of life by one familiar with the abject awfulness of the jungle.
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The Twilight World (German: Das Dämmern der Welt) is a book written by Werner Herzog. It was published in German by Hanser in 2021. The English translation by Michael Hofmann was published by Bodley Head in 2022. The book is based on the life of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier, stationed in Lubang during World War II, who refused to surrender ...
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- Werner Herzog
- Das Dämmern der Welt
- Michael Hofmann
Jun 10, 2022 · Fiction. Two Men of the Jungle Meet in Herzog’s First Novel. In “The Twilight World,” the filmmaker Werner Herzog vividly reconstructs the personal war of Hiroo Onoda, who stayed in the...
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Jun 14, 2022 · 4.4 746 ratings. See all formats and editions. The national bestseller by the great filmmaker Werner Herzog. In his first novel, Herzog 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.
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Jul 8, 2022 · Herzog draws on the extraordinary story of a real-life Japanese soldier who fought on for decades, unaware that the second world war was over Sam Byers Fri 8 Jul 2022 02.30 EDT
In The Twilight World, Herzog immortalizes and imagines Onoda’s years of absurd yet epic struggle in an inimitable, hypnotic style—part documentary, part poem, and part dream—that 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 ...
Jun 14, 2022 · THE TWILIGHT WORLD. by Werner Herzog ; translated by Michael Hofmann ‧RELEASE DATE: June 14, 2022. Herzog fans will hope for a film to come. Meanwhile, this evocation of loyalty to a lost cause serves beautifully. bookshelf. shop now. Stunning tale of obsession unto madness by a master of that narrow but fruitful genre.
