by Paul Torday · SALAMANDRA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498380941
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«La pesca de salmón en Yemen» is the novel by Paul Torday, published by Salamandra in paperback (320 pages, in Spanish).
Dr Alfred Jones, a scientist specialising in fish farming, is tasked with evaluating an apparently absurd project: bringing salmon to Yemen. What seems an impossible idea driven by a wealthy sheikh ends up catching the interest of an adviser to the British prime minister, who sees in it an opportunity to improve the UK's image in the Middle East. Jones will find himself dragged into a ridiculous venture, with echoes of comedy and political critique.
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.
