The Stolen Bicycle (單車失竊記)(英國版)

An intimate portrait of a Taiwanese family, a history of the bicycle industry, and a collage of magical, heart-wrenching stories.

The Stolen Bicycle has sold over 10,000 copies in Taiwan!

Cheng, a novelist, once wrote a book about his father's disappearance twenty years ago. One day he receives a reader's email asking whether his father's bicycle disappeared as well. Perplexed and amused, Cheng decides to track down the bicycle, which was stolen years ago.

The journey takes him to a scavenger's treasure trove, the mountain home of an aboriginal photographer, deep into the secret world of antique bicycle collectors, and ultimately to his own heart.

Wu Ming-Yi is one of Taiwan's most innovative young novelists, as well as an expert on the history of Taiwanese environmental literature, which he teaches as an associate professor at National Dong Hwa University in Hualian, Taiwan. Widely considered the leading writer of his generation, he has won the China Times Open Book Award six times and his works have been translated into nine languages.

Darryl Sterk is a scholar specialising in the representation of Taiwan's aboriginal peoples in film and fiction. He is also a literary translator specialising in Taiwan literature. He previously translated Wu Ming-Yi's The Man With the Compound Eyes. He teaches Translation and Interpretation at National Taiwan University.