Wu Ming-Yi’s novel about bicycles, elephants and war - which is also a startlingly intimate meditation on memory, family and home
By Wu Ming-Yi
Translated by Darryl Sterk
Darryl Sterk
Darryl Sterk was born in Edmonton, Canada, in March 1973
He is an academic based in Hong Kong, with an interest in translation to and from Taiwan’s indigenous languages. A Chinese-English literary translator for a decade, he has been a regular contributor to The Taipei Chinese Pen, Pathlight, and other journals. He has translated two novels by Wu Ming-Yi - The Man With the Compound Eyes (Harvill Secker, 2013) and The Stolen Bicycle (The Text, 2017).