Yerevan Bestseller 4/12: Imre Kertész’s “Fatelessness” in the list

YEREVAN, MAY 13, ARMENPRESS. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez tops this week’s “Yerevan Bestseller” list of ARMENPRESS.

"Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel García Márquez comes next. “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.

“Steppenwolf” by German-Swiss author Hermann Hesse is 3rd in the list. Combiningautobiographicaland psychoanalyticelements, the novel was named after the lonesomewolfof 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.

Mark Aren’s “Where wild roses bloom” is next. 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.

Edgar Harutyunyan’s “The Art of Devotion or Ode to the Rose” is ranked 5th, followed by “The Autumn of the Patriarch” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Milan Kundera’s “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” is 7th. The novel is about two women, two men, a dog and their lives in thePrague Springperiod ofCzechoslovakhistory in 1968. Although written in 1982, this novel was not published until two years later, in a French translation (asL'Insoutenable légèreté de l'être). The original Czech text was published the following year.

Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as1984, is adystopiannovel by English authorGeorge Orwell which is ranked 8th in this week’s Bestseller list.

Lord of the Fliesis a 1954novelbyNobel Prize-winning English author William Goldingabout a group of British boys stuck on anuninhabited island who try to govern themselves with disastrous results. The novel is 9th in the list.

Fatelessnessis a novel byImre Kertész, winner of the 2002Nobel Prizefor 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 theAuschwitzandBuchenwaldconcentration camps.The novel concludes this week’s list.

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).