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Paul Torday
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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen |
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English |
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Paperback |
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352 |
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2007-06-14 |
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0753821788 |
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W&N |
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0.53 pounds |
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0.94 x 5.04 x 7.8 inches |
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New Ed |
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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
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Marianne (Australia) (2012/09/23):
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is the first novel by British author, Paul Torday, and combines his love of salmon fishing with his literary talent. When fish scientist, Dr Alfred Jones is asked to advise on a project to set up a salmon fishing run for a sheikh in the highlands of the Yemen, he finds the idea laughable and dismisses the idea of any involvement. But his boss soon presents him with an ultimatum that has him reconsidering his position. When he meets Sheikh Muhammad’s charming agent, Harriet Chetwode-Talbot, and later still, the Sheikh himself, he finds his scorn turning to interest and enthusiasm. Using a format of a collection of documents (emails, diary entries, memos, extracts of interviews, print media articles, extracts from the Hansard, letters, extracts from an unpublished autobiography, a TV script), Torday puts together a delightfully funny and moving tale that is also thought-provoking and even educational. The reader does not need to like or know about fishing or the Yemen to enjoy this novel. The bureaucracy will remind many readers of Yes, Prime Minister, with the same laugh-out-loud results. Much more than salmon or the Yemen, this book is about people and caring, about impossibility, about faith and hope and love. Winner of the 2007 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, and no wonder! Entertaining and very enjoyable.
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