YEREVAN BESTSELLER 4/95 – Readers prefer Remarque, Boyne, Kundera in weekly Top 10

YEREVAN, JANUARY 26, ARMENPRESS. Vardges Petrosyan’s‘Years Lived and Not Lived’is at the top ofYerevan Bestsellerproject – anARMENPRESSexclusivebringing the top ten weekly bestselling books.

Mark Aren’s ‘Where Wild Roses Bloom’is ranked 2nd in this week’s top bestselling book in the city.

“The Alchemist”by Brazilian authorPaulo Coelhowhich was first published in 1988, has returned to the list and is ranked 3rd. 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.

Edgar Harutyunyan’s ‘Unfound Chamomiles’comes next. The book is about human relationship, love, friendship and betrayal.

Narine Abgaryan’s Three Apples Fell From The Sky novel is 5th in this week’s list.

Three Comrades by Erich Maria Remarque is next. The novel is written in first person by the main character Robert Lohkamp, whose somewhat disillusioned outlook on life is due to his horrifying experiences in the trenches of theFirst World War'sFrench-German front.

‘The Boy in the Striped Pajamas’is next. 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 Pajamasin two and a half days, barely sleeping until he got to the end.

Steppenwolf by Herman Hesseis ranked 8th this week. Originally published in Germany in 1927, it was first translated into English in 1929.

Combiningautobiographicalandpsychoanalyticelements, the novel was named after the lonesomecanidof thesteppes,coyote. The story in large part reflects a profound crisis in Hesse's spiritual world during the 1920s while memorably portraying the protagonist's split between his humanity and his wolf-like aggression and homelessness

Milan Kundera’s “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”comes next. It was published in 1984. The book chronicles the fragile nature of an individual's fate, theorizing that a single lifetime is insignificant in the scope of Nietzsche's concept of eternal return.

Stefan Zweig’s “Collected Stories”this week concludes the ranking. 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.

Yerevan Bestseller presented by Angela Hambardzumyan