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All the books by Paul Torday adapted to cinema and television
Paul Torday is known for being the author of the book Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, first published in 2007, which was adapted to cinema by Lasse Hallström in 2011.
We invite you to watch, read, and vote for either the adaptation or the original, and join the debate on whether the book or the movie is better.
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Paul Torday, 2007
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Lasse Hallström, 2011
Fisheries expert Alfred Jones receives an email from financial adviser Harriet Chetwode-Talbot, seeking advice on a project to bring salmon fishing to the Yemen—a project being bankrolled by a wealthy Yemeni sheikh and supported by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Alfred dismisses the project as ‘fundamentally unfeasible’ because Yemen cannot provide the necessary environment for salmon.