The Stolen Bicycle
$22.15
- Paperback
396 pages
- Release Date
29 November 2019
Summary
Long-listed for the Man Booker International Prize 2018, The Stolen Bicycle is now available in a more compact paperback edition.
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 a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781911231240 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1911231243 |
| Author: | Wu Ming-Yi, Darryl Sterk |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | Text Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 396 |
| Release Date: | 29 November 2019 |
| Weight: | 348g |
| Dimensions: | 41mm x 128mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
Praise for The Man with the Compound Eyes: ‘Reminiscent of Haruki Murakami, twisting the dreamlike into the curiously credible.’ Times Literary Supplement
‘We haven’t read anything like this novel. Ever. [It is] beautiful, entertaining, frightening, preposterous, true.’ Ursula K. Le Guin
‘A haunting and evocative tale, beautifully told…this work will be a classic.’ Hugh Howey, author of Wool
Wu Ming-Yi
Wu Ming-Yi
Wu Ming-Yi is a Taiwanese writer, painter, designer, photographer, literary professor, butterfly scholar, environmental activist, traveller, and blogger. He is the author of the novel Routes in the Dream (2007), as well as a number of non-fiction books and short story collections. The Man with the Compound Eyes is his first novel to be translated into English.
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