by Paul Torday · Círculo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467227918
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«La pesca de salmón en Yemen» is a novel by Paul Torday published in 2007 by Círculo de Lectores in hardback, with 337 pages, in Spanish.
Dr Alfred Jones, a specialist in fish farming, must evaluate an apparently impossible project: introducing salmon to the desert Yemen. The idea, driven by Sheikh Mohamed ben Zaidi bani Tihama, ends up interesting an adviser to the British prime minister. With elegant humour, the novel deals with faith, ambition and the improbable.
Original title: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. Translation by Luis Murillo Fort. The work won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize in 2007.
For readers of contemporary fiction seeking ironic humour and a political backdrop.
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.
