Can a comedy be written about the migrant crisis? This unusual book, by Romain Puértolas, a French author who worked as a border guard, just about succeeds.
It has two strands: the first is a light, comic story, centred on an Indian rogue. Armed only with a poorly forged 100 Euro note and ‘his famous gift of the gab’, he encounters a succession of European people. In this strand, the Extraordinary Journey has a light picaresque tone: events just happen, and Ajatashatru Oghash Rathod bounces between countries, from France, to…
Can a comedy be written about the migrant crisis? This unusual book, by Romain Puértolas, a French author who worked as a border guard, just about succeeds.
It has two…
