Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (Paperback)

from petterw

A light-hearted, warm-hearted novel with (as one reviewer puts it) surprising bite. The narriative is all in the shape of letters, diary excerpts, newspaper articles, autobiographies and interviews. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is an ironic take on British politics, but it is also a sweet love sto...

from hemlokgang

Salmon fishing in Yemen? Impossible? One of the closing lines of this book is , "I believe in it because it is impossible." Paul Torday has written a lovely novel about transformation, faith, belief, and love. A Yemeni sheikh who loves salmon fishing proposes to bring the sport to his home countr...

from hugh_ashton

I'm somewhat in awe of authors who can write in the first person and make their character ridiculous or stupid or evil without the character themselves being aware of their shortcomings. Torday does this several times in this book, with at least three different characters, and comes up with a see...

from herschelian

If prizes were handed out for the most unusual book-titles of the year, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday would certainly be on the short list. This is a book you may well have seen piled up in bookstores over the past twelve months as it was one of the Richard & Judy bookclub Summer Rea...

from KarenDuff

Beautifully written and heartwarming, this book grabbbed me from the first page I couldn't put it down. The way it is written in the form of emails, diary entries, memos and interviews works very well, in other hands this could have come across a gimmicky and detracted from the story. I know a lo...