Personal Days

Personal Days is amusingly spare, yet soon becomes something darker, aspiring perhaps to the unblinking horror of Joseph Heller's corporate schlub epic Something Happened

The List

A comic and creepy debut novel...Park transforms the banal into the eerie

New Yorker

Anyone missing Joshua Ferris' Then We Came To The End should pick up this novel

Esquire

As much a novel of pitch-perfect comic vignettes of working life, Personal Days is the ideal book to read under the table during the next staff training seminar. Park has strayed into Ricky Gervais' territory and may soon be its king

Observer

Chilling, compulsive, and hilarious

Elle, 'Read of the Month'

I laughed until they put me in a mental hospital. But Personal Days is so much more than satire. Underneath Park's masterly portrait of wasted workaday lives is a pulsating heart, and an odd, buoyant hope

Gary Shteyngart

Park's eye for the minutiae of office life is sharp... This is as funny as Seinfeld

Brandon Robshaw, The Independent on Sunday

Park's wry look at lives ruled by unreliable computers and bad coffee speaks volumes about the choices we make in the name of ambition

The Times

sketches so expertly; if you like this genre, he gets the tone just right

William Leith, Evening Standard

The funniest novel of office life in decades... A must-read

Daily Mail

The narrative, a DeLillo-like, pellet - sized series of vignettes, rings true in its evocation of the paranoid weirdness of office life

Arena