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Venue for foreign bookworms in Hanoi

‘Bookworm’ at 44 Chau Long street, Ba Dinh district, Hanoi, is now home to more than 30,000 book titles in foreign languages.
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  • Despite being re-located several times, the bookstore has become a favourite destination for foreign and domestic readers (Photo: VNA)

  • ‘Bookworm’ boasts several rooms with well-organised shelves full of all genres and types of books, from novels to books on politics, economics, arts and culture (Photo: VNA)

  • Books displayed at the bookstore are mostly old books in English and French (Photo: VNA)

  • The bookstore boasts a special corner for books introducing Vietnam (Photo: VNA)

  • Books on Vietnamese culture (Photo: VNA)

  • Readers here always treasure books and repair any damaged ones (Photo: VNA)

  • The bookstore opened in Hanoi in August 2001 by Australian author Pam Scott and then was bought back by Hoang Van Truong, a Vietnamese avid reader, in 2006.

  • Expat readers often visit ‘Bookworm’ to indulge their passion for reading when in Hanoi (Photo: VNA)

  • ‘Bookworm’ is home to over 30,000 book titles (Photo: VNA)

  • Anyone can find something among a huge number of books at the bookstore (Photo: VNA)

  • ‘Bookworm’ is also a venue for exchanging new and old foreign books (Photo: VNA)

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