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YEREVAN, JULY 22, ARMENPRESS. This week’s ranking of “Armenpress” Yerevan Bestseller project is led by "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez.
“The Picture of Dorian Gray” aphilosophicalnovelbyOscar Wilde is ranked 2nd . The novel was first published complete in the July 1890.
“Steppenwolf” by German-Swiss authorHermann Hesse comes next. Originally published in Germany in 1927, it was first translated into English in 1929. Combiningautobiographicaland psychoanalyticelements, the novel was named after the lonesomewolfof the steppes.
Márquez’s “Memories of My MelancholyWhores” is 4th.
“Nausea” is ranked 5th. 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.
“Manuscript Found in Accra”byBrazilianauthorPaulo Coelho comes next in the ranking. The action is placed in 1099 in Jerusalem while the city awaits the invasion of the crusaders.
"Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel García Márquez is 7th in the 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.
Mark Aren’s “Where wild roses bloom” is ranked 8th. 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.
“Who Moved My Cheese?” by Spencer Johnson is 9th. It is amotivational talewritten 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.
“Dear Life”is ashort storycollection byCanadianwriterAlice Munro, which is ranked 10th this week.
Ruth Scurr, writing in the Telegraph, points to the autobiographical aspect of the collection and declares the collection to be "a subversive challenge to the idea of autobiography: a purposeful melding of fact fiction and feeling".The reviewer goes on to suggest the collection might be Munro's last, but if so would be a "spectacular" finale.
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).