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Dr. Alfred Jones is a henpecked, slightly pompous middle-aged scientist at the National Centre for Fisheries Excellence in London when he is approached by a mysterious sheikh about an outlandish plan to introduce the sport of salmon fishing into the Yemen. Dr. Jones refuses, but the project, however scientifically absurd, catches the eye of British politicians, who pressure him to work on it. His diaries of the Yemen Salmon Project, from beginning to glorious, tragic end, form the narrative backbone of this novel; interspersed throughout are government memos, e-mails, letters, and interview transcripts that deftly capture the absurdity of bureaucratic dysfunction.
With a wickedly wonderful cast of characters—including a weasel-like spin doctor, a missing soldier and his intrepid fiancée, and Dr. Jones’s own devilish wife—Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is the whimsical story of an unlikely hero who discovers true love, finds himself first a pawn and then a victim of political spin, and learns to believe in the impossible.
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An extraordinary and enchanting tale of unexpected heroism and late-blooming love; of fly-fishing and political spinning and of the triumph of hope in a cynical world.
?A wonderful novel ? a cry for humanity in our target driven, spin-riddled world.’ Marina Lewycka, author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
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- VerlagHoughton Mifflin
- Erscheinungsdatum2007
- ISBN 10 0151012768
- ISBN 13 9780151012763
- EinbandTapa dura
- Auflage1
- Anzahl der Seiten333
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