The Stolen Bicycle

Six-time Winner of the China Times Open Book Award and 'Author of the Year', Eslite Bookstore On a quest to explain how and why his father mysteriously disappeared twenty years ago, a writer embarks on an epic journey in search of a stolen bicycle and soon finds himself immersed in the strangely overlapping histories of the Japanese military during World War II, Lin Wang, the oldest elephant who ever lived, and the secret world of antique bicycle collectors in Taiwan. The result is a surprising and moving meditation on memory, loss, and the bonds of family.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.PRAISE FOR WU MING-YI AND THE STOLEN BICYCLE 'A work of astonishing energy, in which Wu beautifully touches on loss, life and...