Longlisted for 2018 Man Booker International. A young writer's quest to recover a stolen bicycle leads to unexpected encounters. Stories within stories emerge, tracing the history of Taiwan and one family's fortunes.
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. His work has been translated into nine languages and compared to that of writers such as Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, David Mitchell and Yann Martel.
