Kun an parasurat kan nobelang ini, naninindugan kan pangangataman kan particular na porma asin pagpapahayag sa tataramon na Bikol, makusog an pagtubod kan mga Hurado sa puturo kan siring na lengwahe. Ngalas an mga Hurado sa hiben na tingog kan nobelista, an bago asin labas magin ragap, alagad bakong maringis na rawitdawit kan saiying pros ana inaakit kita sa sarong kinaban kun sain an marhay na pagluto igwang kalag asin mga tauhan na sinasakrangan an osipon, an personal asin an garo kasaysayan. If this writer, with his novel, represents the stewardship of a particular form and expression of the Bikol language, then the Jury feels confident about the future of that language. The Jury marveled at the young voice of the novelist, the new and fresh as well as reckless, and yet never strident, poetry of his prose luring us into a world where great cuisine has soul and characters straddle the fictive, the personal and the seemingly historical.

1. Bikol fiction. 2. Bikol literature.