The Stolen Bicycle

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 II, 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.

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The Stolen Bicycle

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 II, 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.

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The Stolen Bicycle

The Stolen Bicycle

The Stolen Bicycle

The Stolen Bicycle

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Overview

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 II, 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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781911231240
Publisher: Text Publishing Company
Publication date: 04/14/2020
Pages: 416
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.75(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Parts of the Bicycle ix

One Hundred Years in Taipei x

Before Time 1

A History of the Bicycles My Family Has Lost 7

A-pu's Cave 27

Bike Notes I 57

Kyoko's Place 67

Bike Notes II 97

Psyche 105

Bike Notes III 125

Moon Like a Silver Wheel 135

Bike Notes IV 157

Bicycle Thieves 163

Bike Notes V 199

Forests of Northern Burma 207

Bike Notes VI 239

Chokushi Boulevard 249

Limbo 295

Bike Notes VII 313

The Tree 325

Postscript: A Time Beyond Mourning 367

Translator's Note 373

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