{"product_id":"9780593490280","title":"The Twilight World","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 Onoda’s long war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt 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 war—at first  with other soldiers, and then, finally, alone, a character in a novel of his own making.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Twilight World\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 give our lives.","brand":"Werner Herzog","offers":[{"title":"Penguin Publishing Group |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2023-06-13","offer_id":44151378247935,"sku":"9780593490280","price":23.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_8f89238c-21b5-4b9a-bc14-1fe5ec95f9f9.jpg?v=1686115767","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780593490280","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}