YEREVAN, JULY 31, ARMENPRESS. This week the rating list of the Yerevan Bestseller project by Armenpress News Agency tops the “The Book of Lamentations'' by St. Gregory of Narek published by “MHM”, “Nairi” and “Nahapet” publishing houses. The mystical poem "Book of Lamentations" has been translated into many languages and has played a significant role in the development of the Armenian literary language. In 95 grace-filled prayers St. Gregory draws on the exquisite potential of the Classical Armenian language to translate the pure sighs of the broken and contrite heart into an offering of words pleasing to God. The result is an edifice of faith for the ages, unique in Christian literature for its rich imagery, its subtle theology, its Biblical erudition, and the sincere immediacy of its communication with God. This masterpiece by St. Gregory of Narek has always been included in our bestseller books list.  

The second place is occupied by the book “I Saw My Country” by Larisa Gevorgyan.

The third horizontal is occupied by "The Little Prince" by French author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, re-published by “Antares” and “Edit Print”. The novella is both the most read and most translated book in the French language, and was voted the best book of the 20th century in France. The book was translated into more than 190 languages and dialects, as well as Braille. Over 80 million examples of the book were sold. It had several publications in Armenian. Saint-Exupéry, a laureate of several of France's highest literary awards and a reserve military pilot at the start of the Second World War, wrote and illustrated the manuscript while exiled in the United States after the Fall of France. He had travelled there on a personal mission to persuade its government to quickly enter the war against Nazi Germany. In the midst of personal upheavals and failing health he produced almost half of the writings he would be remembered for, including a tender tale of loneliness, friendship, love and loss, in the form of a young prince fallen to Earth.

"One Hundred Years of Solitude" again by Columbian author Gabriel García Márquez occupies the fourth place. One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founds the town of Macondo, the metaphoric Colombia. The widely acclaimed book, considered by many to be the author's masterpiece, was first published in Spanish in 1967, and subsequently has been translated into thirty-seven languages and has sold more than 30 million copies. The magical realist style and thematic substance of One Hundred Years of Solitude established it as an important, representative novel of the literary Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s, which was stylistically influenced by Modernism (European and North American) and the Cuban Vanguardia (Vanguard) literary movement. One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of a family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women -- brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul -- this novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction.

 Another book by Larisa Gevorgyan “A Sun in a Mountain” gets the fifth horizontal.

The bestseller of Umberto Eco “The name of the Rose”, characterized as a philosophical or theological detective, taking place in the 14th century, has a value of an encyclopedia covering all layers of the medieval world and comes the 6th in the books list. The new “The name of the Rose”, where the author made some editorial and linguistic corrections, some cuts, particularly in terms of citations in Latin, was published in 2013 and after French, the Armenian is the second language, into which it was translated.

The actions of the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee take place in a small American city around the story of a humble family.  Following the events of the novel through the eyes of a nine-year-old girl, you start thinking about such important issues as tolerance, jurisdiction, kindness and conscience. And finally, you come to agree with the child’s analysis at which she arrives as a result of experience of 3 years and you - as a result of the    mental experience obtained from reading: “We are going to grow up further but there is little we can learn, maybe only the algebra.” The book was published by “Zangak”. The novel takes the 7th place.

“The Autumn of the Patriarch” again by Gabriel García Márquez occupies the 8th position of the Bestseller Books List introduced by Armenpress News Agency. One of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most intricate and ambitious works, “The Autumn of the Patriarch” is a brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant and the corruption of power. From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator of “The Autumn of the Patriarch” embodies the best and the worst of human nature. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the renowned master of magical realism, vividly portrays the dying tyrant caught in the prison of his own dictatorship. Employing an innovative, dreamlike style, and overflowing with symbolic descriptions, the novel transports the reader to a world that is at once fanciful and real.

The 9th horizontal goes to “Who Moved My Cheese?” by Dr. Spencer Johnson, which is one of the most read books in the world. With Who Moved My Cheese? Dr. Spencer Johnson realizes the need for finding the language and tools to deal with change--an issue that makes all of us nervous and uncomfortable. Most people are fearful of change because they don't believe they have any control over how or when it happens to them. Since change happens either to the individual or by the individual, Spencer Johnson shows us that what matters most is the attitude we have about change. When the Y2K panic gripped the corporate realm before the new millennium, most work environments finally recognized the urgent need to get their computers and other business systems up to speed and able to deal with unprecedented change. And businesses realized that this was not enough: they needed to help people get ready, too. Spencer Johnson has created his new book to do just that. The coauthor of the multimillion bestseller The One Minute Manager has written a deceptively simple story with a dramatically important message that can radically alter the way we cope with change. Who Moved My Cheese? allows for common themes to become topics for discussion and individual interpretation.

"Love in the Time of Cholera" by García Márquez comes the 10th. The book was translated from the original by Frunzik KIrakosyan. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.

To complete the bestseller list, the following bookshops have participated in the survey: “Bookinist” (53-74-13), “New Book” (093-60-40-64), “Noah’s Ark” (56-81-84), “Armenian Book” (54-07-06), “Edit Print” (57-70-09), “Narek” (51-91-36) and “Zangak” (23-25-28). No textbook was considered during the survey.