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Book · 2015
The Stolen Bicycle
單車失竊記Twenty years after his father mysteriously vanished along with his prized bicycle, a Taiwanese novelist sets out to trace the lost heirloom through the antique bicycle trade. His search opens a rich portal into 20th-century Taiwanese history, weaving together wartime elephant handlers, bicycle infantry in Southeast Asia, and forgotten family grief.
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The Stolen Bicycle is a fascinating work, and a pleasure to read.
Tony Malone on Tony's Reading List In 'The Stolen Bicycle', this meticulous craftsmanship of detail is abundant. Or rather, as he lays out, the starting point of the entire novel stems from a reader's question: At the very end of 'Routes in the Dream', where did the protagonist's father's bicycle go?
陳琡分 on 博客來 OKAPI In this respect, one can speak reasonably of the industry’s life cycle, and Wu Ming-Yi’s absorbing novel The Stolen Bicycle offers a fascinating window into the infancy, gradual evolution, and enduring legacy of “the iron horse” in 20th-century Taiwan.
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