Pham Quang Long started his writing career with drama and has become more and more energetic, rich in writing power, and more attractive in novels. After a few works with thematic nature right from the way they were named such as Lost in the human world, The chess game..., the appearance of Village Stories and The Rươi Season has opened up spaces with dense novelistic qualities: from the ability to capture the reality of life to the exploration of personal fate/human identity, from the creation of natural landscapes to the exploitation of cultural sediments, from the blending of aesthetic colors to the interweaving of tone, language, from customs and habits to the changes of the times... All are gathered quite smoothly, creating the mark of Pham Quang Long's style in the stream of novels written about the contemporary countryside.