YEREVAN BESTSELLER 4/25: Márquez tops ranking

YEREVAN, AUGUST 12, ARMENPRESS. This week’s YEREVAN BESTSELLER project of ARMENPRESS is topped by “Love in the Time of Cholera”byColombianauthorGabriel García Márquez. The novel was first publishedin 1985.

“The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde is 2nd in the list. It was first published complete in July 1890. It is a philosophicalnovel. Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist who is impressed and infatuated by Dorian'sbeauty; he believes that Dorian’s beauty is responsible for the new mode in his art as a painter.

Mark Aren’s “Where wild roses bloom” is ranked 3rd. 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.

“Nausea” is aphilosophical novelby theexistentialistphilosopherJean-Paul Sartre, published in 1938. It is Sartre's first novel and, in his opinion, one of his best works. The novel is ranked 4th this week.

“Dandelion Wine”is 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. The novel is ranked 5th.

“The Fault in Our Stars”is a novelby authorJohn Green, published in January 2012. It is ranked 6th in this week’s list. The title is inspired by Act 1, Scene 2 ofShakespeare's playJulius Caesar, in which the noblemanCassiussays toBrutus: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings."The story is narrated by a sixteen-year-oldcancer patient Hazel Grace Lancaster, who is forced by her parents to attend a support group in the "Literal Heart of Jesus" where she subsequently meets and falls in love with 17-year old Augustus Waters, an ex-basketballplayer as well as anamputee.

“The Alchemist” is a novel by Brazilian authorPaulo Coelhofirst published in 1988. Originally written inPortuguese, it has been translated into at least 67 languages as of October 2009.Anallegorical novel,The Alchemistfollows a youngAndalusian shepherd in his journey toEgypt, after having a recurring dream of finding treasure there. The novel is ranked 7th.

Memories of My Melancholy Whores is anovellabyGabriel García Márquez and is ranked 8th this week. The book was originally published in Spanish in 2004, with an English translation byEdith Grossman published in October 2005. An old journalist, who has just celebrated his 90th birthday, seeks sex with a young prostitute, who is selling her virginity to help her family. Instead of sex, he discovers love for the first time in his life.

“Art of Devotion or Ode to Rose” by Edgar Harutyunyan is ranked 9th this week.

The list is concluded by “The Martian Chronicles”is a 1950science fictionshort storycollection byRay Bradburythat chronicles the colonization ofMarsby humans fleeing from a troubled and eventually atomically devastated Earth, and the conflict betweenaboriginalMartians and the new colonists

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).