The Stolen Bicycle
by Wu Ming-Yi
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Pub Date 26 Oct 2017 | Archive Date 30 May 2018
Text Publishing | Text UK
Description
Long listed for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize
Taiwan Literary Award, 2015 (Taiwan)
China Times Open
Book Award (Six-time winner, including 2015) (Taiwan)
Eslite Bookseller Award for Author
of the Year, 2015 (Taiwan)
Dream of the Red Chamber Award,
Judge Recommendation 2016 (Hong Kong)
UDN Grand Literary Award, 2016
(Taiwan)
Publishers Weekly International Hot
Book Properties, 2015
Wu Ming-Yi's previous novel, The Man with the Compound Eyes, is the most celebrated Taiwanese
novel of the past decade.
The
Stolen Bicycle is an intimate
portrait of a Taiwanese family, a history of the bicycle industry, and a
collage of magical, heart-wrenching stories. The book follows Cheng, a
novelist, who once wrote a book about his father’s childhood and his
disappearance twenty years ago. One day he receives a reader’s email asking
whether his father’s bicycle disappeared as well. Perplexed and amused, Cheng
decides to track down the bicycle, which was stolen years ago. The journey takes him to a scavenger’s treasure trove,
the mountain home of an aboriginal photographer, deep into the secret world of
antique bicycle collectors, and ultimately to his own heart.
Advance Praise
Praise for THE MAN WITH THE COMPOUND EYES
“Astonishing....A wonderful novel.”—The Independent
“Imaginative and moving.” —Financial Times
“Reminiscent of Haruki Murakami, twisting the dreamlike into the
curiously credible.”—Times Literary Supplement
“Offering a heady dose of realism, surrealism, and magic realism, with several
shots of allegory, award-winning Chinese author Wu [Ming-Yi] offers a work for
‘literary fiction’ readers, but not in the snobbish sense. It’s really for any
curious, intelligent reader.” —Library Journal (starred review)
“An entrancing, multi-faceted elegy...Full of painful, wonderful beauty.”—The Rumpus
“Beautifully written and beautifully translated...Lyric,
simple, soft, the story crests and recedes and comes back again.”—The
Bloomington Sun-Current
“Perhaps the best writing to ever come out of a Taiwan novel.” —Taipei Times
“A gift...Ming-Yi is a naturalist as well as a storyteller, and it is perhaps
his greatest achievement that this novel creates a sense of solidarity not only
between his human characters, but also between [the] humans and the animals and
plants he describes with such fidelity.”—FullStop
“Rich, dense and dripping with life. The book sings in the key of fable, but
with the timbre of reality.”—Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely
in a Fictional Universe
“Brilliant...A haunting and evocative tale, beautifully
told.” —Hugh Howey, author of Wool
“We haven’t read anything like this novel. Ever...A new way of telling our new reality,
beautiful, entertaining, frightening, preposterous, true...Wu Ming-Yi
treats human vulnerability and the world’s vulnerability with fearless
tenderness.” —Ursula K. Le Guin
“I couldn’t put it down.”
—Jason Sheehan, NPR
“Lyrical,
haunting...A heady mix of science fiction, fantasy, environmental fable
and magical realism, the author had to create a genre entirely new for this
singular, captivating book.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781911231158 |
| PRICE | £10.99 (GBP) |
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