YEREVAN BESTSELLER 4/41 – “Who Moved My Cheese?” leads this week’s list

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 16, ARMENPRESS. “Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life” by Spencer Johnson leads the list of YEREVAN BESTSELLER project of ARMENPRESS.Published on September 8, 1998, it is amotivational business 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 forcheese. ANew York Timesbusinessbestsellerupon release,Who Moved My Cheese?remained on the list for almost five years and spent over 200 weeks onPublishers Weekly's hardcover nonfiction list.It has sold more than 26 million copies worldwide in 37 languages and remains one of the best-selling business books.

Narenk Galstyan’s “Akhparner” (meaning brothers in Western Armenian) is ranked 2nd. This is the author’s first novel, which presents a history of a family who survived the Armenian Genocide. The book was published by “Antares” publishing house.

Georgian writer Nodar Dumbadze’s “The Law of Eternity” and “Granny, Iliko, Illarion, and I” comes next.

Mark Aren’s “Where wild roses bloom” is ranked 4th in the list. 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 famous late Armenian politician Vahan Hovhannisyan wrote his work “Mandylion” in the genre of historical intellectual detective. The book is in the 5th place this week. Vahan Hovhannisyan received a special prize for this book in the “Bestseller of the Year” ceremony.

New book enters the list and is ranked 6th. Levon Shahnur’s “Journey: Before Love” describes the signs of life and death.

“The Picture of Dorian Gray”byOscar Wilde takes the 7th position in the list. 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. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, and he soon is enthralled by the aristocrat'shedonisticworldview: that beauty and sensual fulfillment are the only things worth pursuing in life.

“Art of Devotion or Ode to Rose” by photographer and writer Edgar Harutyunyan is ranked 8th in the list.

“Veronika Decides to Die”is anovelbyPaulo Coelho. It tells the story of 24-year-oldSlovenianVeronika, who appears to have everything in life going for her, but who decides to kill herself. This book is partly based on Coelho's experience in variousmental institutions, and deals with the subject of madness. The gist of the message is that "collective madness is called sanity".

Veronika Decides to Diehas been adapted fortheatrea number of times, and was also used in other artistic references. The novel is ranked 9th in this week’s list.

“Dandelion Wine”, 1957novelbyRay Bradbury, concludes this week’s list. The novel is taking place in the summer of 1928 in the fictional town of Green Town, Illinois, based upon Bradbury's childhood home ofWaukegan, Illinois. It was translated from English by Zaven Boyadjyan.

To complete the bestseller list, the following bookshops have participated in the survey: “Narek” (51-91-36), “Bookinist” (53-74-13), “Antares” (091-90-01-23) and “Zangak” (23-26-49).