There are reasons to look back to Huang's early work. The first is to point out that Letting Them Go-in which the protagonist of every story is an elderly person-is entirely of a piece with his other work. In fact, it is a return to the main thread of his concerns of 30 years ago.
回顧黃春明早期小說，首先是為了指出：《放生》這本「每一篇都是以老人為主角」的小說集子，放在黃春明的文學脈絡裡非但一點都不意外，反而是重返了黃春明自己三十年前的關懷主線。