'The importance of this magnificent book is the beauty of its writing, the mastery of its telling. David Park is a great writer, that's the truth.'

Glenn Patterson

'The Truth Commissioner is a fine, crafted novel, but it is also an important book ... his best writing to date ... He sets out to examine what it means to be alive - and does so in fictions that are subtle, understated, not without a hint of menace and always courageous'

Eileen Battersby, Irish Times

'Edgy and compelling ... it approaches the mysterious with a kind of unsparing simplicity that yields moments of heart-shivering beauty ... this is a magnificent and important book'

Joseph O'Connor, Guardian

'With guile and wonderful imaginative sympathy, Park stays afloat on the most treacherous of thematic currents ...We're reminded that with writers like David Park, the novel can itself be a kind of truth commission'

New York Times