T.N. pointed to his house roof. It had stopped leaking after more than VND15 million (US$711) was spent on repairing it. But N. looked none too happy about his improved living conditions. “I had to sell my books,” he said, sadness writ large on his face. Similar stories are being narrated by many collectors in the former feudal capital of Hue. They have been selling off many old, original books, as poverty forced them to part with their most valuable asset, a Tuoi Tre report said. N. did not want to be named, saying he felt bad about selling what he treasured. Among the items he sold were hundreds of issues of newspapers published in South Vietnam, the US-backed regime before the Vietnam War ended in 1975, as well as newspapers published in Hue before 1945 and several books from the early 1900s. He is still keeping some 400 music sheets by Hue publisher Tinh Hoa, and An Phu and Dien Dong publishers then based in Saigon, which were the first to print pieces of Vietnamese modern music from the 1940s and popularize it across Indochina. The sheet collection has been offered VND30,000 apiece and N. said he would sell…
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