NEW YORK (A.W.)—Chris Bohjalian’s The Sandcastle Girls continued to dominate many regional and national best-seller lists on the second week of its release in the U.S., while the book’s UK edition hit the shelves in Europe on Aug. 2.
In the Aug. 5 print edition of the New York Times (Book Review, p. 26), the novel is anchored at number 7 on the nation’s preeminent best-seller list.
The Sandcastle Girls was number 3 on its second week on the New England Indie Bestseller List (for the week ended July 29). The list is compiled based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the New England Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound.
Earlier this week, the Washington Post reported that the novel was the fourth best-selling book in the nation’s capital.
The novel, which has sold tens of thousands of copies nationwide within the first two weeks of its release, also figured prominently on best-seller lists of individual bookstores. It was number one, for example, on Harvard Bookstore’s July 30 best-seller list.
UK edition
The UK edition of The Sandcastle Girls, released on Aug. 2, was published by Simon and Schuster with a different front and back cover (see photo). On the back cover, the following passage from novel is highlighted: “How do a million and a half people die with nobody knowing? You kill them in the middle of nowhere.”
For more information on the UK edition, click here.
For your review re book club looks like this made the cut. i am excited to see if this meets all my requirements about Armenians of the past diapora and slaughter and the Armeninans of the president and the hope of the future
When is the move coming out?
movie
Congratulations to Chris Bohjalian on a wonderful literary achievement!
This is a stay-up-all-night and keep reading kind of book. Let the weeds grow in the garden, the dishes stay unwashed in the sink, eat left-overs, don’t answer the phone, or turn on the computer, anything to just keep reading this can’t put it down book. Something that occurs just before the ending will shatter you. The possibility of this happening hung there in the back of my mind as I anxiously read through many pages, but would it actually happen? It was impossible to turn the lights out and go to bed until I found out, until I turned the very last page. There are things in this book you will think about for a very long time. Unbidden questions will arise in your mind when you least expect it. You will find yourself wondering “what if…?”
What a Masterpiece work. Thank you Chris Bohjalian. You have touched the core of the genocide, and you have the power to achieve and enlighten the reader by describing the horrible devastations, hunger, and all the atrocities commited by the Ottoman Empire, in Aleppo and Der El Zor. After reading it twice, I can say that this story has been imprinted in my heart forever. We will never ever forget the barbaric actions of the Tallats and Envers. I just want to know, what kind of a human being will do such a thing? People that commit genocide, should never have the right to exist in this planet. I sure do know first hand, the horrible and barbaric actions of the Ottoman Empire. My father and mother were from Harpoot, and they were survivors. My father has written his autobiography, it is over 300, pages, it has not been published yet. Every time that I read I just could not stop crying.
Dear Ardamis Antaramian,
We would very much like to publish your father’s autobiography, the one that’s 300 pages mentioned in your reply, on our website http://www.genocide1915.info. We need to bring to light any evidence available about the Armenian Genocide. We cannot ignore or lose any piece of information, because it could be critical in our struggle for the official recognition. Please contact us: contact@genocide1915.info
Thank you.
I’m extre…emly happy that
Chris’s beautiful book hitting England …
With A New Cover…of English Style
To be read by the real English Oxfordian readers…
Let them read the stories of genocide…and feel some guilt…shame…
TIll now their M.P’s refuse to recignise the ungodly mass slaying…and uncanned graves of Der-Zor Land…
Playing their usual cunning games…on our account.
Scotts and Welsh parliaments recognised…Aren’t they part of U.K…?
or they live in another icy-land…!
deprived of any human feeling only towards art-full race like Armenians…
Who discoverd for them the inhalers by Prof. Roger Altounyan …
and made billions out of it…
Still they refuse to recognice our unhealable pains…
What Turkey gave them other than killing…shouts…lies
snatching North Cyprus from them…in front of their eyes…!
Did they fight against…They took it like a piece of cake…
And let the Cypriet people suffer …till today
Including Armenians those established their life
for second or third time there…!
Sylva
Written instantly
Dear Digran:
Thank you so much for your offer to publish my father’s autobiography. I have tried to contact you by e-mail at, contact@genocide1915.info I have received no response. I tried to sign the petition re-Armenian Genocide as well, I could not do it because of the security words that needed to be underlined. I hate to tell you that I could not do the underlining.
I would very much like to contact you re-authobiography, and sign the petition as well. if you, or anybody would be kind enough to give me the details, or the instructions, how to underline the letters.
Thank you.