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"Armenpress" introduces 37th bestseller books list

"Armenpress" introduces 37th bestseller books list

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 4, ARMENPRESS. "The Alchemist" novel by contemporary Brazilian author Paulo Coelho tops this week's "Bestseller Books List" introduced by "Armenpress" News Agency. This book has been translated into 67 languages and according to AFP, it has sold more than 30 million copies in 56 different languages, becoming one of the best-selling books in history and winning the Guinness World Record for most translated book by a living author. 

"The Alchemist" is followed by "Memories of My Melancholy Whores" by Columbian author Gabriel García Márquez. The book was translated into Armenian from the Russian version by Hovhannes Ayvazyan in 2010. "Memories of My Melancholy Whores" is dedicated to the love affairs of an old journalist, who falls in love with a young girl.

Fable in novella ''Jonathan Livingston Seagull'', written by American author Richard Bach, occupies the third place. The book is about a seagull learning about life and flight, and a homily about self-perfection. It was first published in 1970 as "Jonathan Livingston Seagull — a story." By the end of 1972, over a million copies were in print, Reader's Digest had published a condensed version, and the book reached the top of the New York Times Best Seller list where it remained for 38 weeks. In 1972 and 1973 the book topped the Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States.

''The Book of Lamentations'' by St. Gregory of Narek occupies the fourth position this week. The pearl of the medieval Armenian literature is also known to the public as "Narek" for short. The mystical poem "Book of Lamentations" has been translated into many languages and has played a significant role in the development of the Armenian literary language. In 95 grace-filled prayers St. Gregory draws on the exquisite potential of the Classical Armenian language to translate the pure sighs of the broken and contrite heart into an offering of words pleasing to God. The result is an edifice of faith for the ages, unique in Christian literature for its rich imagery, its subtle theology, its Biblical erudition, and the sincere immediacy of its communication with God. This masterpiece by St. Gregory of Narek has always been included in our bestseller books list. 

"Where the Wild Roses Bloom" by Moscow-resident contemporary Armenian author Mark Aren (Karen Martirosyan) occupies the fifth position of this week’s "Bestseller Books List" of "Armenpress" News Agency. German author Hermann Hesse’s “In and Out” occupies the sixth position.

"Eleven Minutes" by Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho occupies the seventh position. The novel is based on the experiences of a young Brazilian prostitute called Maria, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer...." When a chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, she dreams of finding fame and fortune yet ends up working as a prostitute.

"The Shagreen Skin" (La Peau de chagrin) by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac occupies the eighth position. Set in early 19th-century Paris, it tells the story of a young man who finds a magic piece of shagreen that fulfills his every desire. For each wish granted, however, the skin shrinks and consumes a portion of his physical energy. La Peau de chagrin belongs to the Études philosophiques group of Balzac's sequence of novels, La Comédie humaine.

Before the book was completed, Balzac created excitement about it by publishing a series of articles and story fragments in several Parisian journals. Although he was five months late in delivering the manuscript, he succeeded in generating sufficient interest that the novel sold out instantly upon its publication. A second edition, which included a series of twelve other "philosophical tales", was released one month later.

Nineteen Eighty-Four dystopian novel by George Orwell first published in 1949 occupies the ninth position.

"Poems" by Arthur Rimbaud (20 October 1854 – 10 November 1891) occupies the final position of the bestseller books list introduced by "Armenpress" News Agency. Rimbaud was a French poet born in Charleville, Ardennes. As part of the decadent movement, he influenced modern literature and arts, inspired various musicians, and prefigured surrealism. All of his poetry was written as a teenager; he gave up creative writing completely before he turned 20. His "genius, its flowering, explosion and sudden extinction, still astonishes".

Rimbaud was known to have been a libertine and a restless soul. He travelled extensively on three continents before his death from cancer just after his 37th birthday.








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