First published in 2015, «The Stolen Bicycle» received Taiwan Literature Award in the same year and was nominated for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. An energetic and active novelist, Wu spent years learning the ropes and the bicycle repair techniques under the guidance of master craftsmen. Along the way, he became a bicycle fan, repairman, and collector. This novel is his tribute to the people living on his native island or connected with it. It interweaves a complex history of Taiwan, its bicycle industry, the art of making collages from butterfly wings, the history of zoos, child soldiers, and the history of World War II on the Indochinese and Malay peninsulas. Its multi-linear plot shows a complicated past of the indigenous Taiwanese, the Japanese colonizers, the Chinese immigrants, and the war victims in Southeast Asia—from the times of Japanese colonialism through Chiang Kai-shek’s dictatorship to contemporary liberal democracy.