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The stolen bicycle / Wu Ming-Yi ; translated from the Mandarin by Darryl Sterk.
Van Pelt Library PL2966.U825 D3613 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wu, Ming-Yi, 1971- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Dan che shi qie ji. English
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Civilization.
- Taiwan--Civilization--Japanese influences--Fiction.
- Taiwan.
- Taiwan--History--1895-1945--Fiction.
- Taiwan--History--1945---Fiction.
- Chinese fiction.
- Civilization--Japanese influences.
- Genre:
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Chinese fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Melbourne, Australia : Text Publishing, 2017.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Chinese.
- Summary:
- On a quest to explain how and why his father mysteriously disappeared twenty years ago, a writer embarks on an epic journey in search of a stolen bicycle and soon finds himself immersed in the strangely overlapping histories of the Japanese military during World War II, Lin Wang, the oldest elephant who ever lived, and the secret world of antique bicycle collectors in Taiwan. The result is a surprising and moving meditation on memory, loss, and the bonds of family.
- Contents:
- Parts of the bicycle
- One hundred years in Taipei
- Before time
- A history of the bicycles my family has lost
- A-pu's cave
- Bike notes I
- Kyoko's place
- Bike notes II
- Psyche
- Bike notes III
- Moon like a silver wheel
- Bike notes IV
- Bicycle thieves
- Bike notes V
- Forests of Northern Burma
- Bike notes VI
- Chokushi Boulevard
- Limbo
- Bike notes VII
- The tree
- Postscript: a time beyond mourning.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781925498554
- 1911231154
- 9781911231158
- 1925498557
- OCLC:
- 989037924
- Publisher Number:
- 99977130174
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