Hillside verses Share CLOSE Tangshan Hill Pit Bookshop, the new and largest branch of Librairie Avant-Garde, is built on a former industrial site in Nanjing, Jiangsu province.[Photo provided to China Daily] Librairie Avant-Garde's largest branch opens in Nanjing, with events paying homage to poetry, Yang Yang reports. In April, a bunch of poets gathered at the new branch of Librairie Avant-Garde, Tangshan Hill Pit Bookshop, for the first poetry award initiated by the store. Built on the ruins of a mine at the foot of the hill, about 4 kilometers from the nearest Wenquan (hot spring) village, in a suburb of Nanjing, Jiangsu province, it is the bookstore chain's 18th branch and largest, covering 1,300 square meters.