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Yerevan Bestseller books list 3/36: “This is Not the End of the Book ”

Yerevan Bestseller books list 3/36: “This is Not the End of the Book ”

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 30, ARMENPRESS. "The Little Prince" by French author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry published by Antares and Edit Print occupies the first place of this week's "Bestseller Books List" introduced by "Armenpress" News Agency. 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 250 languages and dialects, as well as Braille.

“The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green is the 2nd on this week's "Bestseller Books List".

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.

Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning-author John Green’s most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.

The book was translated into Armenian by Edit Print Publishing house, by Alina Mirzoyan. 

“The Art of Dedication or Dithyramb to a Rose” written by Edgar Harutyunyan occupies the third position in the list.

“The Piano Teacher” by Austrian Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek is on the fourth place. The most popular work from provocative Austrian Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher is a searing portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires. Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the prestigious and formal Vienna Conservatory, who still lives with her domineering and possessive mother. Her life appears boring, but Erika, a quiet thirty-eight-year-old, secretly visits Turkish peep shows at night and watched sadomasochistic films. Meanwhile, a handsome, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old student has become enamored with Erika and sets out to seduce her. She resists him at first—but then the dark passions roiling under the piano teacher’s subdued exterior explode in a release of perversity, violence, and degradation.  

"Steppenwolf" novel by German-Swiss author Hermann Hesse is the fifth in our list. Originally published in Germany in 1927, it was first translated into English in 1929. Combining autobiographical and psychoanalytic elements, the novel was named after the lonesome wolf of the steppes. 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. Hesse would later assert that the book was largely misunderstood.

"One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Columbian author Gabriel García Márquez occupies the sixth 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 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.

"1984" by George Orwell occupies the 8th position of the Bestseller Books List introduced by "Armenpress" News Agency. While 1984 has come and gone, Orwell's narrative is more timely that ever. 1984 presents a "negative utopia", that is at once a startling and haunting vision of the world — so powerful that it's completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the power of this novel, its hold on the imaginations of entire generations of readers, or the resiliency of its admonitions — a legacy that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.

The Bastard of Istanbul is the 9th on the list. This is a 2006 novel by Turkish bestselling female author Elif Şafak, written originally in English and published by Viking Adult. It was translated by Aslı Biçen into her native language Turkish under the title Baba ve Piç in March 2006, and became a bestseller. The author of the Armenian translation of the book, American-Armenian literary critic Maro Madoyan-Alajanyan stated this at the press conference held on May 21. As reports "Armenpress" Maro Madoyan-Alajanyan underscored: "Elif Şafak must be known to the Armenian society. Her novel is dedicated to the consequences of the Genocide. She implemented finest contemporary style. This is her second novel in English language."

"This is Not the End of the Book" by Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude Carrière closes Bestseller Books List introduced by "Armenpress" News Agency.

The perfect gift for book lovers: a beautifully designed hardcover in which two of the world's great men have a delightfully rambling conversation about the future of the book in the digital era, and decide it is here to stay.

To complete the bestseller list, the following bookshops have participated in the survey: “New Book” (093-60-40-64), “Noah’s Ark” (56-81-84), “Armenian Book” (54-07-06), “Narek” (51-91-36), “Bookinist” (53-74-13), “Antares” (091-90-01-23) and “Zangak” (23-25-28).




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