Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

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It was thought-provoking to read that an immature, self-absorbed and complacent men like Peter Maxwell have such great impact on the policy makers of a country like Britain but is there any country where politicians aren’t swayed by their advisors, top aides etc… Torday’s characters believe it’s really biblical to offer water to strangers while you don’t have so much water yourself. Is this really true in a Western country like Britain? The writer must know something. He’s been to the Middle East many times. He can surely make comparisons but is that a fair comparison? Did humanity really die in the West? Is that so simple? Or is the writer being naïve and does he just glorify the East out of proportion? And things such as his TV-show idea are just another of too many vaguely amusing but completely unnecessary asides.)

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With so many books being published, it’s no surprise that publishers are always on the lookout for something new – something that will make a book stand out. It’s true now, and it will have been true in 2007, when Salmon Fishing in the Yemen was first released. As a whole, Torday's effort reads like the Sheikh's first experience shooting grouse: he thought he was a fine marksman, but found: "they flew so fast that I could not hit them for a long time". Where was I when this came out in 2007? When I discovered this title recently in someone else’s TBR list, I immediately added to my own. The novel is an absurdist romp with a heart of gold (and romance). I belly-laughed through the first bits, looked askance at the portion where the Prime Minister’s aide imagines a quiz show in Pakistan, and couldn’t wait to find out the result of the ridiculous, bound-to-fail salmon fishery in Yemen. I wanted to believe, as the sheik says.

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The first thing I noticed that Sheikh using his money to plant something in the desert that does not belong to the desert. Then there is going to the moon and mars. Yeah, we can see it in two ways. Are we harmonizing with nature to push human limits, or to challenge it every step? Paul Torday ( / ˈ t ɔːr d eɪ/; 1 August 1946– 18 December 2013) [1] 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 [2] and was serialised on BBC Radio 4. It won the Waverton Good Read Award in 2008. It was made into feature film in 2011, starring Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt.

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Certainly, the National Centre for Fisheries Excellence and the government come of looking realistically silly. But when money is involved, the genius people like Dr Alfred have to give up to the pressure and make things work. Faith is the cure that heals all troubles. Without faith there is no hope and no love. Faith comes before hope, and before love. (Sheikh Muhammad ibn Zaidi bani Tihama)” Interview: Ewan Mcgregor, Emily Blunt, Amr Waked, and Paul Webster". Close-Up Film. Archived from the original on 8 November 2012 . Retrieved 3 December 2012.Al Qaeda isn't thrown in very convincingly, either, and it's hard to believe that a figure as ridiculous as Maxwell could last so long as a PM-aide. Using air and aerodynamics to create vessels that fly, while nature has made sure the human body does not fly. But the improbability is not as damaging to the novel as Torday's narrative technique is. (...) Torday grasps the workings of bureaucracies better than he does those of the media. (...) Torday's novel is too staid." - Nicholas Clee, Times Literary Supplement My Dad read a lot. But he read things you could learn stuff from (gardening, wildlife, natural history, woodworking, diy, history, military, politics, etc books) or biographies/autobiographies of sportsmen or military persons. So much so that when he passed away and my Mum came with us to his flat, she remarked that copy of The Bourne Identity was the first novel she had ever seen in his possession. And she had been married to the man for 15 years at one time.