Award-winning author Huang Chun-ming's short-story collections-My Son's Big Toy; Cymbal; Sayonara, Goodbye; Days of Watching the Sea; The Young Widow; and I Love Mary-are well known to readers in Taiwan. But in the more than ten years since I Love Mary came out, Huang has published no new collections.
在先後出版《兒子的大玩偶》、《鑼》、《莎喲娜啦．再見》、《看海的日子》、《小寡婦》、《我愛瑪莉》等小說之後，黃春明沈潛十多年未再出版小說集。