The novel, which is both funny and heart-breaking, won raving reviews and literature awards in 1978 in both Taiwan and Hong Kong.
但是那一片故土和親人卻牽著她的一顆心啊！「我離開北平不是吃不了苦，也不是個人或家庭遭受到中共殘酷的迫害。和其他的人比起來，我們家受到的迫害又能算什麼呢？