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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 the wardrobe of the iconic Swedish…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
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 the 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 - and to a Bollywood beat - the stirrings of love well up in the heart of our unlikely 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.
Autorenporträt
Romain Puértolas wurde 1975 am ersten Tag des Winters in Montpellier geboren. Als Kind stiehlt er die Romanideen seines Goldfischs Gérard, den er von seiner Mutter zum zehnten Geburtstag geschenkt bekommen hat. Er bekritzelt gerne Post-it-Zettel und hat in Frankreich, Spanien und England gelebt. Er war DJ, Zauberkünstler, Flugverkehrsmanager und Übersetzer. "Die unglaubliche Reise des Fakirs, der in einem Ikea-Schrank feststeckte" ist sein Debüt, das zum Nr.1-Bestseller wurde und in fünfunddreißig Ländern erscheint.
Rezensionen
" Full of quirky charm... Delightful " Kate Saunders The Times