false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182804480m/1331653.jpg 1331653 18 1601627 book 14 6 2007 Salmon Fishing in the Yemen total:418|5:60|4:146|3:150|2:51|1:11| 418 1447 561 118 1331653 0753821788 9780753821787 347 93 3.46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182804480m/1331653.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1331653.Salmon_Fishing_in_the_Yemen 0 1 false Wed Jan 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 30 15:15:03 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 30 15:38:51 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1331653 0753821788 9780753821787 347 93 3.46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182804480m/1331653.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1331653.Salmon_Fishing_in_the_Yemen 3 1 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 31 07:37:29 -0800 2007 Tue Jan 01 13:20:09 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1331653 0753821788 9780753821787 347 93 3.46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182804480m/1331653.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1331653.Salmon_Fishing_in_the_Yemen 5 0 false Sat Jan 03 15:44:05 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 15:44:17 -0800 2009 he Fisherman's Chant, Impossibility and Belief, August 23, 2007
4.5 stars

The Fisherman's chant
Rod/reel,Flask/creel, Net/fly book/, And lunch!

"Paul Torday's debut novel is about an impossibility. It is also about belief in the impossible, and belief i...more...]]> 1331653 0753821788 9780753821787 347 93 3.46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182804480m/1331653.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1331653.Salmon_Fishing_in_the_Yemen 4 0 true Wed Oct 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 05:31:19 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 05:59:41 -0700 2009
I have to admit that the format of the book, a series of documents, at first put me off. In fact, when I realised that the novel was in this forma...more...]]> 1331653 0753821788 9780753821787 347 93 3.46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182804480m/1331653.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1331653.Salmon_Fishing_in_the_Yemen 5 0 false Sat Apr 11 02:12:14 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 22:42:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1331653 0753821788 9780753821787 347 93 3.46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182804480m/1331653.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1331653.Salmon_Fishing_in_the_Yemen 2 2 false Mon Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 00:57:23 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 04:37:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1331653 0753821788 9780753821787 347 93 3.46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182804480m/1331653.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1331653.Salmon_Fishing_in_the_Yemen 5 0 false Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 04:28:59 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 05:54:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1331653 0753821788 9780753821787 347 93 3.46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182804480m/1331653.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1331653.Salmon_Fishing_in_the_Yemen 2 0 false Wed Jan 21 03:33:43 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 05:50:44 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1331653 0753821788 9780753821787 347 93 3.46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182804480m/1331653.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1331653.Salmon_Fishing_in_the_Yemen 3 0 true Wed Oct 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jan 05 23:44:01 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 23:51:41 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1331653 0753821788 9780753821787 347 93 3.46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182804480m/1331653.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1331653.Salmon_Fishing_in_the_Yemen 4 0 false Fri May 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 22 14:12:20 -0700 2008 Sat May 10 09:50:26 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1331653 0753821788 9780753821787 347 93 3.46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182804480m/1331653.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1331653.Salmon_Fishing_in_the_Yemen 4 0 false Tue Aug 14 03:26:01 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 16 04:19:00 -0700 2007 more...]]> 387760 0151012768 9780151012763 33 12 3.46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174362000m/387760.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/387760.Salmon_Fishing_in_the_Yemen 3 0 false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu May 31 10:23:10 -0700 2007 Thu May 31 10:25:13 -0700 2007
An extremely wealthy Yemeni aristocrat somehow gets it into his head that he wants to introduce large numbers of salmon (a cold-water fish) into his country (a desert). A (not very) thinly veiled version of the current British governm...more...]]> 1130506 0297851586 9780297851585 7 4 3.46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181238247m/1130506.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1130506.Salmon_Fishing_in_the_Yemen 4 0 false Tue Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 08:27:25 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 13:18:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1331653 0753821788 9780753821787 347 93 3.46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182804480m/1331653.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1331653.Salmon_Fishing_in_the_Yemen 3 0 false Thu Jun 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 21:08:04 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 19:39:42 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 1130506 0297851586 9780297851585 7 4 3.46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181238247m/1130506.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1130506.Salmon_Fishing_in_the_Yemen 3 0 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 25 05:36:23 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 25 05:54:03 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1331653 0753821788 9780753821787 347 93 3.46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182804480m/1331653.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1331653.Salmon_Fishing_in_the_Yemen 4 0 false Sun Jan 04 04:33:37 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 04:35:49 -0800 2009
I hated the first 50 pages of the book but really started to enjoy it after that. The problem seemed to be too many narrator devi...more...]]> 387760 0151012768 9780151012763 33 12 3.46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174362000m/387760.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/387760.Salmon_Fishing_in_the_Yemen 2 0 false Wed Aug 01 14:52:40 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 01 14:56:41 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1331653 0753821788 9780753821787 347 93 3.46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182804480m/1331653.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1331653.Salmon_Fishing_in_the_Yemen 0 0 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 31 01:18:52 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 31 01:24:52 -0700 2007
I didn't engage especially with the characters though. The author has attempted using the device of interview...more...]]> 1331653 0753821788 9780753821787 347 93 3.46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182804480m/1331653.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1331653.Salmon_Fishing_in_the_Yemen 5 0 false Thu Apr 16 21:47:11 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 21:49:10 -0700 2009
It also highlights very subtly the war between personal success and professional promise. That no loss is worth grieving for too long, for ...more...]]> 1130506 0297851586 9780297851585 7 4 3.46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181238247m/1130506.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1130506.Salmon_Fishing_in_the_Yemen 3 0 false Sun Oct 04 10:26:50 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 21:05:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1331653