For readers of The One-Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, a funny, charming, feel-good story about a fake fakir from India who arrives in France to shop at IKEA and unwittingly embarks on a European tour like no other. One day a fakir leaves his small village in India and lands in Paris. A professional con artist, the fakir is on a pilgrimage to IKEA, where he intends to obtain an object he covets above all others: a brand new bed of nails. Without adequate Euros in the pockets of his silk trousers, the fakir is all the same confident that his counterfeit 100-Euro note (printed on one side only) and his usual bag of tricks will suffice. But when a swindled cab driver seeks his murderous revenge, the fakir accidentally embarks on a European tour, fatefully beginning in a wardrobe of the iconic Swedish retailer. As his journey progresses in the most unpredictable of ways, the fakir finds unlikely friends in even unlikelier places. To his surprise the stirrings of love well up in the heart of our hero, even as his adventures lead to profound and moving questions of the perils of emigration and the universal desire to seek a better life in an often dangerous world. The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Was Trapped in an IKEA Wardrobe is a hilarious tale that evokes the manic energy of a Marx Brothers romp witha dose of incisive social commentary. Take an unforgettable tour of Europe propelled by laughter, love and redemption.

Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Was Trapped in An Ike

Romain Puértolas

Vintage Books Australia

The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir who got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe

HARVILL/SECKER

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13 a table ! 2017 / Les Restos du Coeur (French Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Marc Lévy

Bernard MINIER

Agnès LEDIG

Françoise Bourdin

Agnès Martin-Lugand

Franck THILLIEZ

Alexandra Lapierre

Maxime Chattam

François D'Epenoux

Yann Quéffelec

Caryl Férey

Karine Giébel

Couverture de Jean-Charles de Castelbajac

Genre Fiction

French and European Publications Inc

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