It is a collection of 25 literary miscellanies of the author Nguyen Tuan (1910 - 1987) that written in the years before the year of 1975, addressing the realities of life in North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Nguyen Tuan of this period was very different from that Nguyen Tuan of the years before the year of 1945 because after the year of 1945, Nguyen Tuan had become a communist party writer.