Havana Bookstores Start Prelude to Book Fair
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- 02 / 08 / 2010
The fair will open a week later at Morro-Cabaña Military Historic Park and the event's period in the capital will conclude on February 21, to start touring then the rest of the country.
The central Pabellon Cuba art center on 23rd Street, and the Agricultural Fair in Rancho Boyeros, in Havana's western area, will be also venues of the event, with traditional cultural activities for children and young people, and concerts by singer songwriters.
More than 600 books will be sold at the 46 bookstores of the capital city , Provincial Book and Literature Center Director Raisa del Campo told Prensa Latina.
Those places and other cultural institutions will welcome readers at some books presentations, an initiative that attracts people and bring books closer to communities.
Dedicated to Russia, many books from this European nation will be on sale, including a short story anthology by writers of the 19th and 20th centuries, the novel entitled "The Master and Margarita" by Mijail Bulgakov, and "Text Selection" by Alexander Pushkin.
A wide range of interesting books, as "Letter to The Young," a compilation of letters by the Cuban pro-independence national hero Jose Marti to his little sisters and also to Panchito Gomez Toro, one of Maximo Gomez's children that fought in the 19th century Liberating Army, and others are among those on sale.
Source: PL
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