Paul Torday's Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
25 Março 2021, 17:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio
Today we went on to discuss Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday.
The story in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is a story told through an unusual convention: the novel is literally a fictitious government file consisting of diary entries, emails, newspaper articles, official government interviews/interrogations, personal letters, a script for a tv show, a BBC interview, etc. All of the documents included in the 'file' tell the story of how a Yemeni sheikh wants to introduce salmon fishing into the Yemen and how Alfred Jones, a British civil servant and scientist, and Harriet Chetwode Talbot, a British solicitor do their best to help him to make this dream a reality. As the experiment fails in tragedy, the government opens up an investigation into the event.
- Fred
- Mary
- Harriet
- the Sheikh
- Jay Vent
- Peter Maxwell