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YEREVAN, JUNE 24, ARMENPRESS. This week’s ranking of ARMENPRESS news agency’s YEREVAN BESTSELLER project is led by “Who Moved My Cheese?” by Spencer Johnson. It is amotivational tale bySpencer Johnsonwritten in the style of aparableorbusiness fable. The text describes change in one's work and life, and four typical reactions to those changes by twomiceand two "little people," during their hunt for cheese.
“The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green is ranked 2nd in the list. Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, “The Fault in Our Stars” is award-winning-author John Green’s most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.
"One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez comes next.
"Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel García Márquez is 4th in this week’s list. “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.
“The Autumn of the Patriarch” by Márquez is 5th.
“Nausea”is ranked 6th. It is aphilosophical novelby theexistentialist philosopherJean-Paul Sartre, published in 1938. It is Sartre's first novel and, in his opinion, one of his best works.
"The Library of Babel" is ashort storyby Argentineauthor andlibrarianJorge Luis Borges(1899–1986), conceiving of a universein the form of a vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain format andcharacter set. The novel is 7th in the list.
Mark Aren’s “Where wild roses bloom” comes 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.
“Nineteen Eighty-Four” is adystopiannovel by English authorGeorge Orwellpublished in1949, which is ranked 9th this week. The novel issetinAirstrip One(formerly known as Great Britain), a province of the superstateOceaniain a world of perpetual war,omnipresent government surveillanceand public manipulation, dictated by a political system euphemistically namedEnglish Socialism(or Ingsoc in the government's invented language,Newspeak) under the control of a privileged elite of theInner Party, that persecutesindividualism and independent thinking as "thoughtcrime”.
“Fahrenheit 451”is adystopiannovel byRay Bradburypublished in 1953. It is regarded as one of his best works.The novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found. The title refers to the temperature that Bradbury asserted to be the autoignition temperature of paper. The novel concludes the list this week.
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).