The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe

By: Romain Puertolas;

Language: English

Quality: Good

Genre: Novel,

ISBN: 9780099599791

SKU: BE501662938503

Pages: 322

Description: NOTE: BOOK HAS SOME STAINS ON THE FOREDGE; THE INSIDE CONTENT IS IN GOOD CONDITION.// Armed only with a counterfeit 100-Euro note, Ajatashatru the fakir, renowned conjurer and trickster, lands in Paris. His mission? To acquire a splendid new bed of nails. His destination? IKEA. And there he decides to stay, finding an obliging wardrobe in which to lay his head. Only when he emerges from his slumber does he discover that he is locked in, unable to free himself and heading for England in the back of a truck. So begins a magnificent and bizarre adventure for the intrepid fakir. Even while he flees the revenge-crazed taxi driver whom he conned on his arrival, and falls further in love with Marie Rivière, the Parisian beauty whom he tricked into lunching with him, he finds time to befriend a group of Sudanese immigrants, travel to Italy in a suitcase, write a novel on a shirt, and fly to Libya in a hot air balloon. Witty, moving, surprising and joyful, this novel reminds us that heroism abounds, and is to be found in the most unlikely of places.