The shame is that the story did not win the Fiction Award from the United Daily News; I felt it was terribly unfair. Last year Li garnered the runner-up spot in the China Times fiction competition, as Mr. Hsia Chih-ching had special praise for his "Narrow Lane," of which I hold a similar opinion.
可惜那篇小說沒有得到那年聯合報小說比賽獎，甚感不平，去年李捷金榮獲中國時報小說獎第二名，夏志清先生特別推崇他那篇「窄巷」，所見略同。