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This is a story not merely about seeing but about living; not merely about losing sight but about gaining insight. ![The Twilight World [Audiobook]](https://i123.fastpic.org/big/2024/0410/a8/46c1e02d07e1ab074b2ff28f7a5293a8.jpeg) Free Download The Twilight World (Audiobook) English | June 14, 2022 | ASIN: B09HRDY217 | M4B@128 kbps | 3h 20m | 182 MB Author and Narrator: Werner Herzog 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 29 years after the end of World War II In 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 solider famous for having quixotically defended an island in the Philippines for decades after World War II, unaware the fighting was over. 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