by Paul Torday · Orion Publishing Group, Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781780221342
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«Salmon Fishing in the Yemen» is the novel by Paul Torday, published by Orion Publishing Group in paperback (352 pages, in English).
Dr Alfred Jones, a fisheries scientist at the National Centre for Fisheries Excellence, has his routine disrupted when a Yemeni sheikh commissions a far-fetched project: bringing salmon fishing to the Yemeni Highlands. The unlikely venture, fraught with British bureaucracy and politics, ends up transforming his life and that of the country.
Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2007 and shortlisted for the Exclusive Books Boeke Prize. 2012 edition tied to the film; work originally published in 2007.
For those who enjoy contemporary fiction and humour, with an interest in political satire; also for reading groups.
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.
