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Werner Herzog has produced, written and directed more than fifty feature and documentary films, including the multi-award-winning Grizzly Man, Aguirre, The Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo, My Best Fiend, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Nosferatu, Lessons of Darkness, Littler Dieter Needs To Fly, Into the Inferno, Meeting Gorbachev and Encounters At The End of the World. He has also directed many operas and published more than a dozen books of prose including Conquest of the Useless and Of Walking In Ice. The Twilight World is his first book in decades.
A beautiful little novel, with Herzog's slight prose ideally capturing the mind of the lonely Onoda... Nobody else could have written The Twilight World. It is pure Herzog * Sunday Times * The form of The Twilight World...is very cinematic: indeed, it feels like a film unspooling inside Herzog's head as you read * Daily Telegraph * Herzog's writing bristles with the same eerie and uncompromising energy as his films. His jungle pulses with hallucinatory life * Sam Byers, Guardian * 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 * 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 *
