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The Truth Commissioner
David Park
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Description for The Truth Commissioner
Paperback. Four men. One dangerous secret. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 272. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
Henry Stanfield, the newly arrived Truth Commissioner, is troubled by his estrangement from his daughter, and struggling with the consequences of his infidelities. Francis Gilroy, veteran Republican and recently appointed government minister, risks losing what feels tantalisingly close to his grasp. In America, Danny and his partner plan for the arrival of their first child, happily oblivious to what is about to pull him back to Belfast and rupture the life they have started together. Retired detective James Fenton, on his way to an orphanage in Romania with a van full of supplies, will soon be forced to confront what he has come to think of as his betrayal, years before, of a teenage boy. In a society trying to heal the scars of the past with the salve of truth and reconciliation, these four men's lives become linked in a way they could never have imagined.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Good
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747596332
SKU
KJE0003515
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About David Park
David Park has written six books, most recently the hugely acclaimed Swallowing the Sun. He was the winner of the Authors' Club First Novel Award, the Bass Ireland Arts Award for Literature and a twice winner of the University of Ulster's McCrea Literary Award. In June 2008 he was awarded the American Ireland Fund Literary Award for his contribution to Irish literature. He lives in County Down, Northern Ireland with his wife and two children.
Reviews for The Truth Commissioner
'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