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YEREVAN, JANUARY 27, ARMENPRESS. Spencer Johnson’s “Who Moved My Cheese” tops this week’s list of the exclusive project of ARMENPRESS news agency entitled “Yerevan Bestseller”.
Published on September 8, 1998, Who Moved My Cheese is amotivationalbusiness 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 Times businessbestsellerupon 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.
Edgar Harutyunyan’s “The Art of Devotion or Ode to the Rose” is second in the bestseller list.
Stefan Zweig’s “Collected Stories” remain 3rd in the list. Zweig was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most popular writers in the world.
Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture Of Dorian Gray” is approaching the top three again, being listed 4th in the bestselling list of the week. 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.
“The Alchemist” by Brazilian authorPaulo Coelhowhich was first published in 1988, has returned to the list and is ranked 5th. Originally written inPortuguese, it has been translated into at least 69 languages as of December 2016.Anallegoricalnovel,The Alchemistfollows a youngAndalusianshepherd in his journey toEgypt, after having a recurring dream of finding treasure there.
The book is an international bestseller. According toAFP, it has sold more than 150 million copies in 70 different languages,becoming one of thebest-selling books in historyand setting theGuinness World Recordfor most translated book by a living author.
Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “Stories” is listed 6th this week. The collection comprises several famous works of the writer.
The Fault in Our Starsis the sixthnovelby authorJohn Green, published in January 2012. The book has returned to the list and is ranked 7th. 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 Hazel Grace Lancaster, a sixteen-year-old girl withcancer.
A new book has debuted to the list, on the 8th spot.
The book entitled “Not a single week without poetry” includes 52 poems of 52 different poets of Armenia.
Milan Kundera’s “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” is listed 9th this week. The Unbearable Lightness of Beingtakes place mainly inPraguein the late 1960s and early 1970s. It explores the artistic and intellectual life of Czech society from the Prague Spring of 1968 to theinvasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union and three other Warsaw Pact countriesand its aftermath. The main characters are: Tomáš, an adulterous surgeon; his wife Tereza, a photographer anguished by her husband's infidelities; Tomáš’s lover Sabina, a free-spirited artist; Franz, a Swiss university professor and lover of Sabina; and finally Šimon, Tomáš’s estranged son from an earlier marriage.
This week’s bestseller list concludes Dan Brown’s “Inferno”.
Infernois a 2013mysterythrillernovel by American authorDan Brownand the fourth book in hisRobert Langdonseries, followingAngels & Demons,The Da Vinci CodeandThe Lost Symbol. The book was released on May 14, 2013. Afilm adaptationwas released in theUnited Stateson October 28, 2016.
The following bookstores took part in a survey for the bestseller project : Bookinist (53-74-13), Narek (51 91 36), Zangak (23 26 49), Antares (091 90 01 23) and the 7th Bookstore ( 077 24 54 81).