Second-hand book "Trilobites and Other Stories" [90% new]

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★ "The Great Writer You've Never Heard Of" - An American Literary Legend That Passed By Like a Comet

He committed suicide at the age of 26, and published his first and last book four years after his death;

He is hailed as an American legend in the literary world and his genius is comparable to Hemingway.

★ Highly recommended by Margaret Atwood, Kurt Vonnegut, Joyce Carol Oates and other literary masters

Brice D'J. Pankaj's voice is unique: firm, sharp, textured with reality, urgent and haunting.

—Margaret Atwood

I assure you, he is the best writer I have ever read, the most sincere writer.

—Kurt Vonnegut

The young writer is so talented that one can't help but compare his debut novel to Hemingway's.

—Joyce Carol Oates

★ Write about the eternal desire to love and be loved with a cold and hard pen, illuminating the dark corners deep in our hearts

Pankaj’s style is greatly influenced by Hemingway and O’Connor. He is not afraid to “offend” readers with his bleak and violent stories. Instead, he uses his exquisite short story masterpieces to reveal our eternal desire to love and be loved, our fallible flesh and blood, and our immortal yearning for redemption.

★ The unique regional customs and exquisite portraits of marginalized people have been praised by critics as the "American version of Dubliners"

Pankirk's West Virginia is like Faulkner's American South and Joyce's Dublin:

Ancient hills, barren valleys, rusted trailers, sad diners, nearly abandoned mining villages, and those misfits trapped in time - miners, sailors, hunters, truck drivers.

Its unique narrative atmosphere and powerful sense of place are comparable to those of modern literary masters, sublimating reading into a solid, moving and timeless literary experience.

★Authoritatively included in the "Library of America" ​​and officially included in the canon of American literature

After the publication of Pankaj's works, each reprint has triggered a new round of reading craze and attention from the literary world.

In October 2020, the American Library, a recognized authoritative series of American literature aimed at preserving American literary heritage, included a collection of Pankak's works, which put the final nail in the coffin for Pankak's works being included in the literary canon and foreshadows that they are bound to become a global literary heritage in the future.

★ The Godfather translator Yao Xianghui has translated it with great care. The simplified Chinese version is introduced and published for the first time. After nearly 40 years, it finally meets Chinese readers.

The English version of this book was published in 1983. Nearly forty years later, the simplified Chinese version was translated and published for the first time. Yao Xianghui, a famous translator known for his cool translation style, translated it with great care and exquisitely presented the aesthetics of the original text.

★The new designer Shanchuan is responsible for the binding design, with a pure American paperback style

The 120*200 slender small format can be held in one hand; the simple and burden-free single-cover paperback is suitable for carrying around; the inner pages are fluffy and soft, and easy to turn along the grain.

【Media Recommendation】

Brice D'J. Pankaj's voice is unique: firm, sharp, textured with reality, urgent and haunting.

—Margaret Atwood

I assure you, he is the best writer I have ever read, the most sincere writer.

—Kurt Vonnegut

The young writer is so talented that one can't help but compare his debut novel to Hemingway's.

—Joyce Carol Oates

Brice D'J. Pancake's short stories can be called the American version of "Dubliners".

—Jayne Anne Phillips

This book is like a sharp, hard object, an arrowhead left behind by a talented young writer who died tragically young. It seems natural that this work should be lost in the sea of ​​books published each year, but it is definitely worth discovering it again.

—The New Yorker

Pankaj has an ability to recreate the West Virginia landscape on every page with vivid, unforgettable detail: ancient hills and empty valleys, nearly abandoned mining villages, rusting trailers, sad diners, and makeshift farms—landscapes that mirror the lives of his characters, most of whom are trapped, disabled, and obsolete.

——The New York Times Book Review

Mr. Pankirk has a writer's eye for detail, and he uses that detail to paint a layer-by-layer picture of life in the barren hills and hollow valleys of West Virginia.

—The New York Times

By any standard, Trilobite is a masterpiece…Pankirk was, in short, a literary genius.

——The Guardian

Pankaj was a writer of extraordinary sensitivity. The unabashed emotion he evoked was palpable in the rhythm of his sentences; you could feel the heavy, pulsating beats beneath your skin… The posthumous survival of these novels is heartbreaking not because of their potential but because of their perfection.

——The Wall Street Journal

Pankirk's knowledge of the region he writes about is comparable to Faulkner's detailed knowledge of Yoknapatawpha County.... There is a sense of spontaneous disclosure, restlessness, and dissonance in all these novels that is unforgettable and moving.

——The Washington Post

Pankaj places a premium on creating atmosphere and a strong sense of place that is rare in contemporary fiction, and it elevates his best novels into a solid, moving literary experience.

-- San Francisco Review of Books

In my thirty-plus years at The Atlantic, I can’t recall another time when a new writer got this kind of response. For months, letters began pouring in from people who clearly knew nothing about his background and simply wanted to read more of his work, inquired about the possibility of publishing a collection of Pankik’s short stories, or simply expressed affection and gratitude.

—Phoebe-Lou Adams, Pankaj’s editor at The Atlantic

【Content Introduction】

"I felt my fear spread like ripples across millions of years."

A man obsessed with trilobite fossils went out on a date with his ex-girlfriend who was back home for the holiday, triggering his reverie about time and fate; a coal miner failed to keep his wife who was determined to leave, and went up the mountain alone with a gun after a hangover; on a snowy night, a young man on a hike got on a snowplow, but the secret in the driver's heart was more terrifying than the cold...

The author writes about the pain and memories of ordinary people in a small town in the southern United States with the calmness and restraint of Hemingway, but the atmosphere of violence and danger is lurking in the ordinary.