The Twilight World

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