The Stolen Bicycle

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Text Publishing Company, 2019 M11 29 - 400 pages
• From critically acclaimed Taiwanese author Wu Ming-Yi, this intimate and magical story about family, war, history, friendship and bicycles is now available in b-format
• Featuring the author's own intricate illustrations throughout, the book is a profound and moving kaleidoscopic meditation on the world
The Stolen Bicycle has sold over 8.5K copies in previous formats
• Wu Min-Yi's fiction has been compared to that of Haruki Murukami, Vladmir Nabokov, W.G. Sebald, Yann Martel, Margaret Atwood and David Mitchell
• The author is widely considered the leading Taiwanese novelist of his generation. In addition to the Man Booker International Prize long-listing, he has won the Taiwan Literary Award, the United Daily News Literature Prize and the China Times Open Book Award (six-times)
• He is also a leading butterfly scholar and has published two works of non-fiction, The Book of Lost Butterflies and The Dao of Butterflies

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About the author (2019)

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.

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