by Paul Torday · Grupo Anaya Publicaciones Generales · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420697017
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«La pesca de salmón en Yemen» is the contemporary fiction novel by Paul Torday, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (352 pages, in Spanish).
Alfred Jones, a grey civil servant at the UK National Centre for the Promotion of Fish Farming, must study the introduction of salmon to the Yemeni desert. Despite his initial reluctance, the enthusiasm of a billionaire sheikh and his intermediary, plus political interests, trigger comic misadventures that will change his life.
Translation by Luis Murillo Fort. Collection 13/20 from Alianza Editorial. Original title: 'Salmon Fishing in the Yemen'. Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize.
For readers of contemporary fiction who appreciate satire, humour and stories of personal transformation.
Paul Torday was a British writer and the author of the comic novel Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. The book was the winner of the 2007 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing and was serialised on BBC Radio 4. It won the Waverton Good Read Award in 2008. It was made into a 2011 feature film of the same name, starring Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt.
