They ate lunch in silence and tranquility. They spoke little and only of distant things, and there was so much that was offhand and ordinary in the clinking of spoons, the request to pass the salt and slice a piece of cheese, or in a swallow of water and the slightly dry heel of the homemade bread, that Anatolia sensed for the first time that life was a gift, not something to take for granted. Three Apples Fell from the Sky by Narine Abgaryan

Review: "Three Apples Fell From the Sky" by Narine Abgaryan -

Abgaryan's quiet novel--an aging rural Armenian village slowly passing away--is open-handed simplicity, offering wonder on its own terms.

ЧРД на арменската писателка Нарине Абгарян (14.01.1971)! Преди години имах щастието да се докосна лично до тази чаровна, уважителна и скромна млада жена, която с таланта и книгите си впечатли хиляди хора по целия свят. Снимка: https://mihaylovbg.com/

Narine Abgaryan : Z nieba spadły trzy jabłka

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my list of autumnal activities

bake bread with your mom

read cozy comforting books* in the early autumn and spooky and unsettling books** later in the season

knit or crochet a sweater/cardigan or warm socks for yourself and your loved ones

find a new artist***

rewatch the first 3 seasons of gilmore girls (honestly, who cares about the rest?) and practical magic

prepare for autumn holidays if you celebrate any

enjoy the last warm and sunny days

journal about the changes you see in nature

collect acorns, leaves and other stuff

mourn the summer along with nature (cry while it's raining to lana)

give thanks. to yourself, your family and friends, nature, universe. think of how your life has changed since last autumn, reflect

* Three apples fell from the sky by Narine Abgaryan and a few of her other books are what I'm planning on reading

** Los peligros de fumar en la cama (The dangers of smoking in bed) by Mariana Enríquez, Things we say in the dark by Kirsty Logan, Paradise rot by Jenny Hval are on my tbr

*** I'm currently listening to dazey and the scouts and barerra

YA Books About Armenia 🇦🇲

Master Book List for the YA World Challenge for 🇦🇲 Armenia

YA Like Water on Stone, Dana Walrath ⌛ Forgotten Fire, Adam Bagdasarian 💚🛩️⌛ Daughter of War, Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch 🛩️⌛ Lake of Sighs, Meli Sarkissian 💚🦋 One Man Guy, Michael Barakiva 💚🛩️🌈 As the Poppies Bloomed, Maral Boyadjian 💚⌛

NA/Coming-of-age All the Light There Was, Nancy Kricorian 💚⌛🛩️ The Gray House, Mariam Petrosyan 💚🦋 The Gimmicks, Chris McCormick The Spice Box Letters, Eve Makis ⌛🛩️ A Place Far Away, Vahan Zanoyan 💚 My Name is Aram, William Saroyan 💚🛩️

Memoir Four Years in the Mountains of Kurdistan, Aram Haigaz 💚 Vergeen: A Survivor of the Armenian Genocide, Mae Derdarian

Childrens A Weave of Words: An Armenian Tale, Robert D. San Souci

Adult books to consider Three Apples Fell from the Sky, Narine Abgaryan 💚⌛ The Sandcastle Girls, Chris Bohjalian 💚⌛ Rise of the Phoenix, T. Isajanyan 💚🦋 Mayda, Srpuhi Dussap 💚⌛

💚 Native Author 🛩️ Immigrant or diaspora 🏖️ non-native characters in or about the country (ex. vacation/adventure) ⌛ Historical 🦋 Fantasy 🌈 LGBT

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami Invisibility: A Manifesto by Audrey Szasz Bunny by Mona Awad Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The Sentence by Louise Erdrich Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado The Encyclopedia of the Dead by Danilo Kiš One Hundred Shadows by Jungeun Hwang Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami Amrita by Banana Yoshimoto Whale by Myeong-Kwan Cheon The Cat Who Saved Books by Sōsuke Natsukawa Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone by Audrey Burges The Probable Future by Alice Hoffman Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald The Overstory by Richard Powers Poison by Kathryn Harrison Bitter Orange by Fuller, Claire We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Fowler, Karen Joy The Edible Woman by Atwood, Margaret A School for Fools by Sokolov, Sasha Ferdydurke by Gombrowicz, Witold The Iliac Crest by Rivera Garza, Cristina Paris Peasant by Aragon, Louis The Making of a Marchioness by Burnett, Frances Hodgson Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Semple, Maria Hell by Barbusse, Henri The Honk and Holler Opening Soon by Letts, Billie Find Me by Berg, Laura van den * Big Swiss by Beagin, Jen Mariana by Dickens, Monica The Lime Works by Bernhard, Thomas Dead Souls by Gogol, Nikolai Gargoyles by Bernhard, Thomas The Pachinko Parlour by Dusapin, Elisa Shua Lolly Willowes by Warner, Sylvia Townsend Rebecca by du Maurier, Daphne The Hearing Trumpet by Carrington, Leonora Jane Eyre by Brontë, Charlotte The Savage Detectives by Bolaño, Roberto Solitude: A Novel of Catalonia by Català, Víctor Almond by Sohn Won-Pyung My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Moshfegh, Ottessa Heaven by Kawakami, Mieko Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-joo Convenience Store Woman by Murata, Sayaka Iza's Ballad by Szabó, Magda The Door by Szabó, Magda Phantom Limb by Berry, Lucinda The Night Journal by Crook, Elizabeth Faces in the Water by Frame, Janet Three Apples Fell from the Sky by Abgaryan, Narine The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine by Bronsky, Alina Eileen by Moshfegh, Ottessa I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Moore, Lorrie The Stationery Shop by Kamali, Marjan Breasts and Eggs by Kawakami, Mieko Milkman by Burns, Anna The Maid by Prose, Nita The Guest by Cline, Emma Hang the Moon by Walls, Jeannette The Secret of Ventriloquism by Padgett, Jon The Salt Line by Jones, Holly Goddard Perdido Street Station by Miéville, China The Accursed by Oates, Joyce Carol Occupy Me by Sullivan, Tricia Poison Study by Snyder, Maria V. The Last Heir to Blackwood Library by Fox, Hester Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Fawcett, Heather Skylark by Kosztolányi, Dezső Blue of Noon by Bataille, Georges Ruth Hall and Other Writings by Fern, Fanny The Vegetarian by Han Kang Nadja by Breton, André Exquisite Corpse by Brite, Poppy Z. Ice by Kavan, Anna Kallocain by Boye, Karin Palimpsest by Valente, Catherynne M. Elena Knows by Piñeiro, Claudia Landor's Tower: Or Imaginary Conversations by Sinclair, Iain The Birthday Party by Mauvignier, Laurent The Magnolia Palace by Davis, Fiona Memories of the Future by Krzhizhanovsky, Sigizmund Under a Glass Bell by Nin, Anaïs Sugar by McFadden, Bernice L. Vintage Cisneros by Cisneros, Sandra Raising Hope by Willard, Katie Chodleros de Laclos Les Liasions Dangereuses by Various Daddy-Long-Legs by Webster, Jean Local Anaesthetic by Grass, Günter Don't Stop the Carnival by Wouk, Herman Confessions of Felix Krull by Mann, Thomas The House of Mirth by Wharton, Edith Radiant Terminus by Volodine, Antoine Shanghai Girls by See, Lisa The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov, Mikhail (Translator: Mirra Ginsburg) Owlish by Tse, Dorothy

undue influence by anita brookner slip of a fish by amy arnold beside myself by ann morgan blue ticket by sophie mackintosh nostalgia by mircea cartarescu I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Crane, Marisa

summer study 1/15

hey guys!! it's been a year since I posted something connected to studyinspo and etc. but today is the 5th of August (and I deeply love this time of the year) and my holidays are going to end soon. so I've decided to repeat English and German before my new semester and maybe learn something more like from ancient greek (which I deeply love too) and oh God I'm eager to read so much novels, poems and stuff while I have time.

today I read outside the book by narine abgaryan "three apples fell from the sky"

read "der letzte sommer" by ricarda huch

learnt new words from English

see you soon

Absolutely loved #Threeapplesfellfromthesky by #NarineAbgaryan. Full #Bookreview on blog. #Armenianliterature #Translatedfiction #Netgalley #Netgalleyreads This book was requested from NetGalley and Oneworld Publications in exchange of an honest review This book was utterly beautiful.

She went through the library cards and rearranged the books, ignoring their classification numbers and alphabetical order. Guided exclusively by color preferences, she placed books with dark covers lower and books with light covers higher. Three Apples Fell from the Sky by Narine Abgaryan

3 Word Review: “Three Apples Fell from the Sky” by Narine Abgaryan -

A remote village in Armenia, slowly aging into extinction, and yet . . .

Thora Hjörleifsdóttir : Magma • Narine Abgaryan : Z nieba spadły trzy jabłka

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Magma

Prowokująca powieść islandzkiej pisarki o miłości i seksie w erze pornografii. Historia 20-letniej Lilji zakochanej w inteligentnym, pięknym młodym mężczyźnie, który cytuje Derridę, czyta po łacinie i gotuje zbilansowane posiłki wegetariańskie. Lilja desperacko usiłuje być idealną kochanką, próbując zaspokoić każdą potrzebę partnera. Stopniowo przekracza kolejne granice. Hjörleifsdóttir rzuca światło na pospolite podłoże przemocy, która tak często pozostaje ukryta w romantycznych związkach. W mocnej, poetyckiej prozie autorka przedstawia proces zatracania się kobiety o czułym sercu, która desperacko pragnie kochać.

Z nieba spadły trzy jabłka

Wielokrotnie nagradzana opowieść o mieszkańcach zagubionej w górach ormiańskiej wioski. Pełen ciepła i humoru międzynarodowy bestseller o miłości i drugiej szansie. Niecodzienna i zaskakująca, nieco baśniowa historia miłosna wpleciona w sagę o stuletniej historii fikcyjnej wsi Maran – pełnej dramatycznych przejść i nieszczęśliwych zdarzeń. Dzieje wioski luźno nawiązują do tragicznej historii Ormian w XX wieku, autorka kładzie raczej nacisk na uniwersalność doświadczeń społeczności jej mieszkańców. Za to wiernie i w barwny sposób opisuje ormiański folklor, obyczaje i mentalność mieszkańców gór Armenii. Książka, która wzrusza i podnosi na duchu.

Тишина по осени стояла такая, что можно было услышать биение своего сердца. Если не оборачиваться, казалось, что никого в этом мире нет. Но даже обернись, ровным счетом ничего бы не изменилось.

Наринэ Абгарян.

The silence in the fall was such that one could hear the beating of one's heart. If you do not turn around, it seemed that there was no one in this world. But even if it turned around, absolutely nothing would have changed.

Narine Abgaryan.

*Possible artwork from the book: Manyunya Written by Narine Abgaryan, Illustrated by Elena Stanikova

Winding Up the Week #134

Winding Up the Week #134

An end of week recap

This is a weekly post in which I summarise books read, reviewed and currently on my TBR shelf. In addition to a variety of literary titbits, I look ahead to forthcoming features, see what’s on the nightstand and keep readers abreast of various book-related happenings.

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Three Apples Fell from the Sky ~ Narine Abgaryan

Three Apples Fell from the Sky ~ Narine Abgaryan

Rating:3/5

Three Apples Fell from the Sky follows an Armenian woman named Anatolia through various parts of her life, and the life of the town. You may be thinking to yourself, towns don’t live lives. This one seems to. This is magical realism on par with the writing style of One Hundred Years of Solitude, but more modern. It’s a small town, and everybody knows everybody’s business. Not…

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