Silent Extras: A Novel - Hardcover

Grunberg, Arnon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312204779 ISBN 13: 9780312204778

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 2001

Synopsis

The author of Blue Mondays returns with a compelling novel of youthful exuberance, following three friends as they desperately try to make an impact in bohemian Amsterdam.

About this title

Book Description:

The second novel from the wunderkind of Dutch literature

From the Back Cover:

Ewald, Broccoli and the exotic Elvira are three young friends on the run - from the horrifying possibility of living mundane lives. They all want just one thing - to be magnificent, on screen or off it, but ideally in front of thousands of people. So Broccoli, self-styled Svengali and 'President of the Society of Geniuses', begins Operation Brando, an insanely ambitious plan to make them the biggest stars Hollywood has ever known.

Sadly, things don't quite follow this plan and their path to global obscurity is by turns hilarious, absurd and tragic. All three suffer badly from the burning need to be someone else, somebody none of them are quite able to be, and this focus on the abyss separating desire and reality makes for a richly comic and ultimately moving novel by one of Europe's most exciting young writers.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0312204779
• ISBN 13: 9780312204778
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 363