Colorful pages of Tran Cong Danh's books

Following the short story collection Paris, the seasons of love (2021), author Tran Cong Danh (born in 1990 in Binh Dinh, currently living and working in Ho Chi Minh City) has just returned with an exchange program at Ho Chi Minh City Book Street, on the occasion of the launch of the publication Is Money Bad?, both published by Kim Dong Publishing House.

Tran Cong Danh’s first book is a collection of short stories called Paris, the seasons of love, as a mark recording the time studying abroad in France. Through 8 short stories, he brings to readers a sympathetic view, sharing the joys and sorrows, happiness and suffering that Vietnamese students studying abroad in France are experiencing.

Like a character in a story confessed: "In the capital of love, we still have to rush into making a living, between piles of homework in the classroom and the endless nostalgia and longing for family and friends in our homeland."

After studying abroad in France, Tran Cong Danh decided to return to Vietnam to teach and work in the financial sector. The publication Is Money Bad? is the result of more than 10 years of experience he gained after returning to work in Vietnam. The book provides important and necessary skills for many people, especially young people today. That is personal financial management and the path to financial happiness.

Author Tran Cong Danh at the book launch program Is Money Bad?. Photo: NHIEN HUONG

Launched with a purely literary book, many people were surprised when Tran Cong Danh returned with Is Money Bad? According to Tran Cong Danh, writing has been his passion since his high school years. After studying abroad, in addition to writing essays, he also regularly blogged as a way to ease his homesickness, and at the same time, he wanted to share aspects of his life, work, knowledge and life experiences with readers.

“That is why, right from the first book, I chose the literary theme to share my life during my time studying abroad in France in the most gentle way. The second book is also a sharing after more than 10 years of working in the financial sector,” said Tran Cong Danh.

Tran Cong Danh confided that through the book, he hopes that young people will build for themselves the right mindset, attitude, habits and actions with money, so that it always goes hand in hand and becomes a useful skill for life.

Paris, the seasons of love and Is money bad? show the colorful pages of Tran Cong Danh's books with the interweaving of fiction and non-fiction. Not stopping there, Tran Cong Danh is also currently the Head of the Association Connecting Vietnamese Tea Cultural Heritage (under the Ho Chi Minh City Cultural Heritage Association). This is both surprising information and a promise of a book about the Vietnamese tea-drinking hobby that he will send to his readers in the near future.

QUYNH YEN

Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/nhung-trang-sach-day-mau-sac-cua-tran-cong-danh-post799536.html