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Yerevan Bestseller 4/31 – “Unless the grain dies” by André Gide enters the list

Yerevan Bestseller 4/31 – “Unless the grain dies” by André Gide enters the list

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 30, ARMENPRESS. This week’s YEREVAN BESTSELLER project of ARMENPRESS is topped by “The Little Prince" by French author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. 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.

“The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde comes next. It was first published complete in July 1890. It is a philosophical novel.  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.

"The Library of Babel" is a short story by Argentine author and librarian Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), conceiving of a universe in the form of a vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain format and character set. The novel is ranked 3rd in the list.

Mark Aren’s “Where wild roses bloom” is 4th in the list. 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.

“Mommyland: Flag” by Armen Hayastantsi comes next.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “Short stories” is ranked 6th in the list.

“Nausea” is ranked 7th. It is a philosophical novel by the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, published in 1938. It is Sartre's first novel and, in his opinion, one of his best works.

"Unless the grain dies” by André Gide is ranked 8th in the list. This is the major autobiographical statement from Nobel laureate André Gide. In the events and musings recorded here one finds the seeds of those themes that obsessed him throughout his career and imbued his classic novels The Immoralist and The Counterfeiters. 

“The Fault in Our Stars” is a novel by author John Green, published in January 2012. It is ranked 9th in this week’s list. 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 story is narrated by a sixteen-year-old cancer patient Hazel Grace Lancaster, who is forced by her parents to attend a support group in the "Literal Heart of Jesus" where she subsequently meets and falls in love with 17-year old Augustus Waters, an ex-basketball player as well as an amputee. 

Melinda Nadj Abonji’s “Fly Away, Pigeon” concludes the list. As this autobiographical bildungsroman, winner of the Swiss and German Book Awards in 2010, traces the journey of its protagonist, Ildikó (Ildi) Kocsis, from Vojvodina to Belgrade to Switzerland, it represents both the diaspora experience and the intertwined, multigenerational histories of Ildi’s family and their “homeland,” a multiethnic region that in the twentieth century passed from the Hapsburg Empire to the Kingdom of Croats, Serbs, and Slovenes, Tito’s Yugoslavia, and, finally, Serbia. 

To complete the bestseller list, the following bookshops have participated in the survey: “Noah’s Ark” (56-81-84), “Narek” (51-91-36), “Bookinist” (53-74-13), “Antares” (091-90-01-23) and “Zangak” (23-26-49).

 








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