Books by Wu Ming-Yi

The Stolen Bicycle

Wu Ming-Yi

A writer's hunt for his vanished father's lost bicycle becomes a walk back through twentieth-century Taiwan. The map centres on old central Taipei: Zhonghua Road and the vast Zhonghua Shopping Bazaar the family lived and tailored suits in, and the Wanhua-Bangka district of temples, antique stalls and bicycle shops. The search reaches back to the Japanese colonial years and, far to the south-west, to the forests of the Burma campaign of the Second World War.

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