"A recently established government ministry is gathering “expats” from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible—for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time.
She is tasked with working as a “bridge”: living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as “1847” or Commander Graham Gore. As far as history is concerned, Commander Gore died on Sir John Franklin’s doomed 1845 expedition to the Arctic, so he’s a little disoriented to be living with an unmarried woman who regularly shows her calves, surrounded by outlandish concepts such as “washing machines,” “Spotify,” and “the collapse of the British Empire.” But with an appetite for discovery, a seven-a-day cigarette habit, and the support of a charming and chaotic cast of fellow expats, he soon adjusts.
Over the next year, what the bridge initially thought would be, at best, a horrifically uncomfortable roommate dynamic, evolves into something much deeper. By the time the true shape of the Ministry’s project comes to light, the bridge has fallen haphazardly, fervently in love, with consequences she never could have imagined. Forced to confront the choices that brought them together."-- Provided by Amazon
"A recently established government ministry is gathering “expats” from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible—for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time.
She is tasked with working as a “bridge”: living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as “1847” or Commander Graham Gore. As far as history is concerned, Commander Gore died on Sir John Franklin’s doomed 1845 expedition to the Arctic, so he’s a little disoriented to be living with an unmarried woman who regularly shows her calves, surrounded by outlandish concepts such as “washing machines,” “Spotify,” and “the collapse of the British Empire.” But with an appetite for discovery, a seven-a-day cigarette habit, and the support of a charming and chaotic cast of fellow expats, he soon adjusts.
Over the next year, what the bridge initially thought would be, at best, a horrifically uncomfortable roommate dynamic, evolves into something much deeper. By the time the true shape of the Ministry’s project comes to light, the bridge has fallen haphazardly, fervently in love, with consequences she never could have imagined. Forced to confront the choices that brought them together."-- Provided by Amazon
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Combining elements of science fiction, historical drama, romance, and espionage, the debut novel The Ministry of Time offers an inventive exploration of history, bureaucracy, and human connection. Author Kaliane Bradley introduced readers to a near-future London where a British-Cambodian translator is assigned to act as a bridge for historical refugees rescued from past eras into the modern world.
Kaliane Bradley was born in Walthamstow, East London, to a British father and a Cambodian Khmer mother, and grew up in London and Essex. She attended University College London, graduating with a degree in English literature, and subsequently established her career as a writer and editor based in London. Her short stories appeared in numerous publications, including Somesuch Stories, The Willowherb Review, Electric Literature, Catapult, and Extra Teeth. In 2022, her short fiction gained major recognition when she won both the Harper's Bazaar Short Story Prize and the V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize, establishing her voice prior to the release of her acclaimed debut novel.
Bradley's work is characterized by a genre-blending narrative style that integrates speculative premises with sharp literary characterization. Her writing examines themes of displacement, cultural identity, trauma, power dynamics within institutions, and the complex nature of human memory and intimacy. By placing figures from the past into contemporary London, her narrative style uses wit, dark comedy, and emotional realism to interrogate the lingering legacies of history, empire, and assimilation.
1 books in catalog
Combining elements of science fiction, historical drama, romance, and espionage, the debut novel The Ministry of Time offers an inventive exploration of history, bureaucracy, and human connection. Author Kaliane Bradley introduced readers to a near-future London where a British-Cambodian translator is assigned to act as a bridge for historical refugees rescued from past eras into the modern world.
Kaliane Bradley was born in Walthamstow, East London, to a British father and a Cambodian Khmer mother, and grew up in London and Essex. She attended University College London, graduating with a degree in English literature, and subsequently established her career as a writer and editor based in London. Her short stories appeared in numerous publications, including Somesuch Stories, The Willowherb Review, Electric Literature, Catapult, and Extra Teeth. In 2022, her short fiction gained major recognition when she won both the Harper's Bazaar Short Story Prize and the V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize, establishing her voice prior to the release of her acclaimed debut novel.
Bradley's work is characterized by a genre-blending narrative style that integrates speculative premises with sharp literary characterization. Her writing examines themes of displacement, cultural identity, trauma, power dynamics within institutions, and the complex nature of human memory and intimacy. By placing figures from the past into contemporary London, her narrative style uses wit, dark comedy, and emotional realism to interrogate the lingering legacies of history, empire, and assimilation.
