HCMCITY — The HCM City-based Tre (Youth) Publishing House marked its 30th anniversary with a book festival opening yesterday. It features more than 3,000 titles in various fields, including 165 new ones, which are sold at up to 30 per cent discount. Several promotional and cultural programmes will be held to attract readers, especially young people and children, to the six-day event.
The exhibition has six major themes: Changes to Get Rich, Children Discover the World, Living with History, Magic World, Vietnamese Literature, and Let Us Be Grateful to Readers.
Nguyen Minh Nhat, director of the publisher, said university students and young workers were regular customers who particularly enjoy books on business by Chris Dukes, Pauling Rowson, and Water Doyle Staples.
Other titles include around 1,000 on events and heroes from different periods of the country's history, especially the 81 years since the Party's founding.
A popular book is Nguyen Ngoc's Co Mot Duong Mon Tren Bien Dong (A Track on Eastern Sea), a research work on a secret transport line on the sea that helped supply the southern liberation soldiers with ammunition from the northern Viet Nam during the American war.
One of the Tre's bestsellers last year, Tran Thai Binh's Vo Nguyen Giap – Hao Khi Tram Nam (General Vo Nguyen Giap – Magnanimity for Hundreds of Years), is also on display.
It portrays the life and military career the General and his legendary contributions to the victories against the French and American aggressors.
Also taking part as guests are other leading publishers like the HCM City General Publishing House, National Politics Publishing House, and Thanh Nien (Young People) Publishing House.
Nearly 1,000 books would be given away as gifts to visitors on the festival's closing day, they said.
The event is being held at 161B Ly Chinh Thang Street, District 3. Entrance is free. — VNS