by Paul Torday · La Magrana · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788479012182
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«La pesca del salmó al Iemen» is the novel by Paul Torday, published by La Magrana in paperback (320 pages, in Catalan).
Dr Alfred Jones, a scientist expert in fish farming, finds himself involved against his will in a project to introduce salmon fishing to the Yemeni highlands. The venture will end up changing his life and British politics, in a story featuring a visionary sheikh, unscrupulous scientists and a prime minister reminiscent of Tony Blair. A novel about hypocrisy and bureaucracy set against the transformative power of faith and love.
Work in Catalan translated from English by Gemma Fabres Segales and Miquel Panadès Camps. In 2007 it won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and was nominated for the Exclusive Books Boeke Prize.
For readers seeking a satirical comedy set in the Middle East, with political critique and a light tone.
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.
