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Silent Extras (Paperback)

by Arnon Grunberg (Author)
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  • Paperback: 366 pages
  • Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd (2 Nov 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0436204711
  • ISBN-13: 978-0436204715
  • Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,701,928 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Ewald, Broccoli and the exotic Elvira are three young friends on the run from the horrifying possibility of living mundane lives. So Broccoli, self-styled Svengali, begins "Operation Brando", an insanely ambitious plan to make them the biggest stars Hollywood has ever known.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Lost in Translation, 6 Feb 2002
By A. Ross (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Silent Extras (Paperback)
Although apparently a literary whiz-kid in his native Netherlands, Grunberg's charms definitely lose something in either the translation to English or in being read by non-natives. This, the second of his novels to appear in the US (preceded by Blue Mondays), is a choppy, meandering, tedious amble around Amsterdam with three awfully annoying and enigmatic characters. The narrator, Ewald, is a weedy teenager who follows his wildly exuberant and impetuous trust-fund friend around like a puppy dog. The hapless slacker duo are soon joined by an apparently alluring Argentine actress. Their adventures are meant to be farcical, but fall flat, as do the many eccentric supporting characters introduced along the way. I read this book because I wanted to read a Dutch novel, and it had gotten a stellar review in Publisher's Weekly. I place it alongside two other translated novels that were completely overhyped and are to be avoided, Benjamin Lebert's "Crazy" and Enrico Brizzi's "Jack Fruciante Has Left the Band."
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