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Yerevan Bestseller 4/13: “Captain Pantoja and the Special Service” debuts in the list

Yerevan Bestseller 4/13: “Captain Pantoja and the Special Service” debuts in the list

YEREVAN, MAY 20, ARMENPRESS. This week’s ranking of “Armenpress” Yerevan Bestseller project is led by "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel García Márquez. “People are not always born the day their mothers bring them to the world: Life forces them to be reborn many times”, this is the philosophy of the novel. It was translated to Armenian by Frunzik Kirakosyan.

Mark Aren’s “Where wild roses bloom” is 2nd. This is the second novel of the author which describes the inner world of an Armenophobic Turkish former serviceman, when he, already an old man, suddenly hears a lullaby song that reminds him of his mother and later finds out that the song is in Armenian: realizing his parents were Armenians. The same former serviceman spends his remaining life searching the graves of his parents, without knowing that it was a misunderstanding.

"One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez is ranked 3rd.

Márquez’s “Memories of My Melancholy Whores” comes next followed by Edgar Harutyunyan’s “The Art of Devotion or Ode to the Rose”.

Inferno is a 2013 mystery thriller novel by American author Dan Brown and the fourth book in his Robert Langdon series. It is ranked 6th.

Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (Spanish: Pantaleón y las visitadoras) by acclaimed Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa comes next. According to the author himself, the work is based on facts, as he was able to verify them in 1958 and in 1962 when he travelled to the Peruvian jungle. The novel is 7th in this week’s ranking.

 Fatelessness is a novel by Imre Kertész, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for literature, written between 1969 and 1973 and first published in 1975. The novel is a semi-autobiographical story about a 14-year-old Hungarian Jew's experiences in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.  It is 8th in the bestseller list.

Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel by English author George Orwell which comes next in the list.

“Steppenwolf” by German-Swiss author Hermann Hesse is 10th in the list. Combining autobiographical and psychoanalytic elements, the novel was named after the lonesome wolf of the steppes. The story in large part reflects a profound crisis in Hesse's spiritual world during the 1920s while memorably portraying the protagonist's split between his humanity and his wolf-like aggression and homelessness.

To complete the bestseller list, the following bookshops have participated in the survey: “New Book” (093-60-40-64), “Noah’s Ark” (56-81-84), “Armenian Book” (54-07-06), “Narek” (51-91-36), “Bookinist” (53-74-13), “Antares” (091-90-01-23) and “Zangak” (23-25-28).

 

 

 

 

 








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