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The twilight world / Werner Herzog ; translated by Michael Hofmann.

by Herzog, Werner, 1942- author.

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New York : Penguin Press, 2022.

Onoda, Hiroo -- Fiction.

Japan. Rikugun -- Fiction.

Soldiers -- Japan -- Fiction.

Guerrilla warfare -- Philippines -- Lubang Islands -- Fiction.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Philippines -- Lubang Islands -- Fiction.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Armistices -- Fiction.

9780593490266 (hardcover)

0593490266 (hardcover)

132 pages ; 21 cm

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. At the end of 1944, on Lubang Island in 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. . . . There is only one rule. You are forbidden to die by your own hand. In the event of your capture by the enemy, you are to give them all the misleading information you can. So began Onoda’s long campaign, during which he became fluent in the hidden language of the jungle. Soon weeks turned into months, months into years, and years into decades—until eventually time itself seemed to melt away. All the while Onoda continued to fight his fictitious war, at once surreal and tragic, at first with other soldiers, and then, finally, alone, a character in a novel of his own making.

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