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YEREVAN BESTSELLER 4/43 - “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde again leads the list

YEREVAN BESTSELLER 4/43 - “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde again leads the list

YEREVAN, JANUARY 13, ARMENPRESS. “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde leads the list of YEREVAN BESTSELLER project of ARMENPRESS.

Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist who is impressed and infatuated by Dorian's beauty; 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's hedonistic worldview: that beauty and sensual fulfillment are the only things worth pursuing in life.

The second position in this week’s ranking is “Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life”.  Published on September 8, 1998, it is a motivational business fable. The text describes change in one's work and life, and four typical reactions to those changes by two mice and two "little people," during their hunt for cheese. A New York Times business bestseller upon release, Who Moved My Cheese? remained on the list for almost five years and spent over 200 weeks on Publishers 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.

“The Collected Novels” by Stefan Zweig is ranked the third in the list. The book contains the author’s most interesting works which were always popular.

“The Fault in Our Stars” is the sixth novel by author John Green, published in January 2012. The title is inspired by Act 1, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, in which the nobleman Cassius says to Brutus: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings." The novel is ranked 4th.

“Art of Devotion or Ode to Rose” by photographer and writer Edgar Harutyunyan is ranked 5th in the list.

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 Glass Bead Game” is ranked the 7th in this week’s list. It is the last full-length novel of the German author Hermann Hesse. It was begun in 1931 and published in Switzerland in 1943. "Glass Bead Game" is a literal translation of the German title, but the book has also been published under the title Magister Ludi, Latin for "Master of the Game", which is an honorific title awarded to the book's central character. The Glass Bead Game takes place at an unspecified date centuries into the future. Hesse suggested that he imagined the book's narrator writing around the start of the 25th century.

New book enters the list and is ranked 8th. The book entitled “No week without poetry” is a selection-diary of 52 poems of 52 poets.

Narenk Galstyan’s “Akhparner” (meaning brothers in Western Armenian) is ranked 9th. This is the author’s first novel, which presents a history of a family who survived the Armenian Genocide. The book was published by “Antares” publishing house.

Grig’s "Jesus’ Cat" concludes this week’s list. This is the young writer’s first book, which on one hand brings together, original writing style, on the other hand, a view of the world from a unique angle. The characters help to uncover another, unseen side of life.

To complete the bestseller list, the following bookshops have participated in the survey: “Narek” (51-91-36), “Bookinist” (53-74-13), “Antares” (091-90-01-23) and “Zangak” (23-26-49).








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