The Stolen Bicycle by Wu Ming-Yi
A writer embarks on an epic quest in search of his missing father's stolen bicycle and soon finds himself ensnared in the strangely intertwined stories of Lin Wang, the oldest elephant who ever lived, the soldiers who fought in the jungles of South-East Asia during World War I, and the secret world of butterfly handicraft makers in Taiwan. The result is both a majestic historical novel and a profound, startlingly intimate meditation on memory, family and home. Wu's writing has been compared to that of Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, W.G. Sebald and Yann Martel.
Award-winning novelist Wu Ming-Yi is also an artist, designer, photographer, literary professor, butterfly scholar, environmental activist, traveller and blogger, and is widely considered the leading writer of his generation in his native Taiwan. His work has been translated into nine languages and compared to that of writers such as Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, David Mitchell and Yann Martel.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781911231240 |
| ISBN 10 | 1911231243 |
| Title | The Stolen Bicycle |
| Author | Wu Ming-Yi |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Text Publishing |
| Year published | 2019-05-30 |
| Number of pages | 396 |
| Prizes | Winner of Taiwan Literary Award, Taiwan, 2015., Winner of China Times Open Book Award (Six-time winner, including 2015), Taiwan., Winner of Eslite Bookseller Award for Author of The Year, Taiwan, 2015., Commended for Publishers Weekly International Hot Book Properties 2015, Long-listed for The Man Booker International Prize 2018 |
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