Stolen Bicycle

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 a profound, startlingly 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.