<p> <b>Longlisted, Man Booker International Prize, 2018</b></p> <p> <i><b>Six-time Winner of the China Times Open Book Award and ‘Author of the Year’, Eslite Bookstore </b></i></p> <p>A writer embarks on an epic quest in search of his missing father’s stolen bicycle and soon finds himself caught up 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 the Second World War and the secret worlds of the butterfly handicraft makers and antique bicycle fanatics of Taiwan.</p> <p> <i>The Stolen Bicycle</i> is both a majestic historical novel and a profound, startlingly intimate meditation on memory, family and home.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>A long-time resident of Taipei, <b>Darryl Sterk</b> has interests in Taiwan’s local literature and indigenous cultures. He translated the first of Wu Ming-Yi’s novels to be published in English, <i>The Man with the Compound Eyes</i>. </p> <p> <b>Taiwan Literary Award, 2015 (Taiwan)<br> China Times Open Book Award (Six-time winner, including 2015) (Taiwan)<br> Eslite Bookseller Award for Author of the Year, 2015 (Taiwan)<br> Dream of the Red Chamber Award, Judge Recommendation 2016 (Hong Kong)<br> UDN Grand Literary Award, 2016 (Taiwan)<br> Publishers Weekly International Hot Book Properties, 2015<br> Turnaround Favourite Fiction of 2017</b></p> <p> ‘A work of astonishing energy, in which Wu beautifully touches on loss, life and death, fate and destiny, establishing emotional connections between memory and objects, and between the natural world and war... a novel that provides comfort and reconciliation from a wounded past.’ <b><i>Thinking Taiwan</i></b></p> <p> ‘The novel, inspired by his love for bicycles an