YEREVAN BESTSELLER 4/54 - “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck returns to the list

YEREVAN, MARCH 31, ARMENPRESS. “Unfound Daisies”by photographer and writerEdgar Harutyunyanleads the list of YEREVAN BESTSELLER project of ARMENPRESS.

The book is about complex human relationships: love, friendship, betrayal. This is the author’s second book.

Stefan Zweig’s “Collected Stories” this week improved its positions and is ranked 2nd. 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. The book was translated by Ara Arakelyan and Margarit Arakelyan.

Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture Of Dorian Gray”is the 3rd 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.

Spencer Johnson’s “Who Moved My Cheese”this week is ranked 4th in the list. 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.

Mark Aren’s “Where wild roses bloom”comes next. 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 Boy in the Striped Pyjamas”is ranked the 6th in the list. Itis a 2006Holocaustnovel byIrish novelistJohn Boyne. Unlike themonths of planning Boyne devoted to his other books, he said that he wrote the entire first draft ofThe Boy in the Striped Pyjamasin two and a half days, barely sleeping until he got to the end.

“The Fault in Our Stars”is the sixthnovelby authorJohn Green, published in January 2012. 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. Hazel 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 andamputee. The novel is ranked 7th.

Edgar Kostandyan’s “Kuku” novelis again in the list and is ranked 8th.

“The Grapes of Wrath”returns to the list, taking the 9th position. This is an Americanrealistnovel written byJohn Steinbeckand published in 1939.The book won theNational Book AwardandPulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded theNobel Prizein 1962.

“TheAlchemist”by Brazilian writerPaulo Coelhoconcludes this week’s list. The novel is about having a dream and the dedication to making it come true, coupled with love, kindness and the ability to recognize a new country.

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).

“Yerevan Bestseller” project presented by Angela Hambardzumyan