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The Stolen Bicycle by Ming-Yi Wu (2018, UK-Trade Paper) - GOOD
US $10.98
ApproximatelyAU $16.00
Condition:
Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781925498554
- Book Title
- Stolen Bicycle
- Publisher
- Text Publishing Company
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Uk-Trade Paper
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Magical Realism, General, Literary, Historical
- Item Weight
- 18 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 416 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Text Publishing Company
ISBN-10
1925498557
ISBN-13
9781925498554
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10038789426
Product Key Features
Book Title
Stolen Bicycle
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Magical Realism, General, Literary, Historical
Publication Year
2018
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Format
Uk-Trade Paper
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
18 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
Longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International PrizePraise for The Man with the Compound Eyes :'A uniquely harmonious blend of fantasy and blunt realism.... Wu's beautifully evocative language and multilayered ecological and cultural themes offer a richly satisfying reading experience.' -Booklist;'Offering a heady dose of realism, surrealism, and magic realism, with several shots of allegory, award-winning Chinese author Wu offers a work for 'literary fiction' readers, but not in the snobbish sense. It's really for any curious, intelligent reader not tethered to the best sellers lists.' --Library Journal (starred review) 'A universal, yet unique, tale of love and loss...A heady mix of science fiction, fantasy, environmental fable and magical realism, the author had to create a genre entirely new for this singular, captivating book.... [A work of] lyrical, haunting beauty.' --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'It is science fiction...in the way that the best Margaret Atwood books are science fiction... At the same time, it's [also] in the tradition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's magic realism... I read it on the train, on my couch, standing on the street outside a beer garden with a couple of liters already in me and in my car while I drove... I couldn't put it down.' --Jason Sheehan, NPR'Beautifully written and beautifully translated... [Wu] guides us to see the entirety of experience as bumping flotsam in an unending ocean of life colliding and making a mess of things or making something new... Lyric, simple, soft, the story crests and recedes and comes back again.' --The Bloomington Sun-Current'A gift...perhaps his greatest achievement that this novel creates a sense of solidarity not only between his human characters, but also between [the] humans and the animals and plants he describes with such fidelity and with such inspiring belief in the reality of their wisdom and power.' --FullStop'Imaginative and moving.'-- Financial Times 'Rich, dense and dripping with life. The book sings in the key of fable, but with the timbre of reality.'--Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Fictional Universe '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 ;'Astonishing... A wonderful novel which deserves a very wide audience.' -- The Independent (London); '[Wu's] writing occupies the space between hard-edged realism and extravagantly detailed fantasy...Beyond the book's ecological and scientific attributes, you can see a deft novelist's hand at work.'-- The Guardian
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
895.136
Synopsis
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., Longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. A writer embarks on an epic quest in search of his missing father's stolen bicycle and soon finds himself ensnared 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 World War II, and the secret world of butterfly handicraft makers in Taiwan. The result is both a majestic historical novel and an intimate meditation on memory, family and home. Wu's writing has been compared to that of Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, W.G. Sebald and Yann Martel.
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