03471cam a2200469 i 4500 1405188101 MeVbMML 20241016134123.0 231021s2024 nyub e b 000 1 eng d 9781668045145 (hardcover) 1668045141 (hardcover) (OCoLC)1405188101 AJM PR6102.R3333 M56 2024 [Fic] 23 B72143 .m Bradley, Kaliane, author 18528 The ministry of time : a novel / Kaliane Bradley First avid reader press hardcover edition New York, N.Y. : Avid Reader Press, 2024 339 pages : map ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references "An ingeniously imagined, hilarious romp through time, space, and the human heart... The Ministry of Time asks: What does it mean to defy history, when history is living in your house?" -- Dust jacket flap In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she'll be working on. 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, the bridge must finally reckon with how--and whether she believes--what she does next can change the future. An exquisitely original and feverishly fun fusion of genres and ideas, The Ministry of Time asks: What does it mean to defy history, when history is living in your house? Kaliane Bradley's answer is a blazing, unforgettable testament to what we owe each other in a changing world. -- Front flap, Great Britain. Royal Navy Officers Fiction 18529 Time travel Fiction 8648 Roommates Fiction 17129 Civil service Fiction 18530 Voyages dans le temps (CaQQLa)201-0025658 Romans, nouvelles, etc. (CaQQLa)201-0377299 18531 Time-travel fiction 10262 Science fiction 923 Romance fiction 51 Love stories 52 Time-travel fiction. lcgft 10262 Science fiction. lcgft 923 Romance fiction. lcgft 51 .b188842834 ddc BOOK 30140 30140 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2024-10-16 28.99 1 BRAD 66593 2025-04-10 2025-03-18 2024-10-16 BOOK 1