YEREVAN BESTSELLER 4/24: “Where wild roses bloom” again tops the list

YEREVAN, AUGUST 5, ARMENPRESS. This week’s ranking of “Armenpress” Yerevan Bestseller project is led by Mark Aren’s “Where wild roses bloom”. 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.

“The Picture of Dorian Gray”aphilosophicalnovelbyOscar Wilde is ranked 2nd . The novel was first published complete in the July 1890.

"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.

“The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green is ranked 4th 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.

“Fahrenheit 451”is ranked 5th. It 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.

"One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez is ranked 6th in the list. It was translated from Russia by Ruben Hovsepyan.

Dandelion Wineis a1957novelbyRay Bradbury, taking place in the summer of 1928 in the fictional town of Green Town, Illinois, based upon Bradbury's childhood home ofWaukegan, Illinois. It is ranked 7th in the list. The title refers to awinemade withdandelionpetals and other ingredients, commonlycitrus fruit. In the story, dandelion wine, as made by theprotagonist'sgrandfather, serves as ametaphorfor packing all of the joys of summer into a single bottle. The main character of the story is Douglas Spaulding, a 12-year-old boy loosely patterned after Bradbury. Most of the book is focused upon the routines of small-town America, and the simple joys of yesterday.

"1984" by George Orwell ranks the 8th in the list. The book is labeled as “banned” in many countries of the world.

“Who Moved My Cheese?” by Spencer Johnson is ranked 9th in the list. 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.

“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), “Narek” (51-91-36), “Bookinist” (53-74-13), “Antares” (091-90-01-23) and “Zangak” (23-26-49).