Salmon Fishing In The Yemen
by Paul Torday
🏆 Winner of the 2007 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction
A fisheries expert working for the British civil service is tasked with an impossible project—populating the desert wadis of Yemen with Scottish salmon—in the name of improving international relations. Told in the epistolary style, the narrative takes the form of emails, letters, Hansard transcripts, and newspaper articles. It was adapted into a hit romantic comedy starring Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt in 2011.
