YEREVAN, MAY 13, ARMENPRESS. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez tops this week’s “Yerevan Bestseller” list of ARMENPRESS.

"Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel García Márquez comes next. “People are not always born the day their mothers bring them to the world: Life forces them to be reborn many times”, this is the philosophy of the novel. It was translated to Armenian by Frunzik Kirakosyan.

“Steppenwolf” by German-Swiss author Hermann Hesse is 3rd in the list. 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.

Mark Aren’s “Where wild roses bloom” is 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.

Edgar Harutyunyan’s “The Art of Devotion or Ode to the Rose” is ranked 5th, followed by “The Autumn of the Patriarch” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Milan Kundera’s “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” is 7th.  The novel is about two women, two men, a dog and their lives in the Prague Spring period of Czechoslovak history in 1968. Although written in 1982, this novel was not published until two years later, in a French translation (as L'Insoutenable légèreté de l'être). The original Czech text was published the following year.

Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel by English author George Orwell which is ranked 8th in this week’s Bestseller list.

Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author William Golding about a group of British boys stuck on an uninhabited island who try to govern themselves with disastrous results. The novel is 9th in the list.

 Fatelessness is a novel by Imre Kertész, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for literature, written between 1969 and 1973 and first published in 1975.

The novel is a semi-autobiographical story about a 14-year-old Hungarian Jew's experiences in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. The novel concludes this week’s list.

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).