Author Description

• 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