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

The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe ‎ The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe by Romain ‎Puértolas appeared in 2013. The novel is different from the traditional French novels. It is the ‎strange story of a Fakir who comes to Paris by airplane to buy a new IKEA bed of nails. He is ‎trapped in a wardrobe, which is going to be sent to England. The novel is a huge hit and is ‎translated into 39 languages across the globe. Puértolas is a French border guard who ‎investigates the affairs of illegal immigrants in Paris. As he himself states, he wrote the novel ‎on his mobile phone during his travels from home to work. The novel depicts the lives of ‎African refugees and illegal immigrants who have fled their countries on cracked old boats. It ‎is written in an attractive and humorous language, especially the name of the characters such as ‎the Fakir Ajatashatru Lavash Patel is humorous (his name in French resembles the phrase: “he ‎has swallowed the steeled screw.” The novel describes impossible events in such a way that ‎they can be believed to have happened. The story has a high speed and one can swiftly read it.‎