The Ministry of Time (inbunden)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
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Engelska
Antal sidor
368
Utgivningsdatum
2025-03-27
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Sceptre
ISBN
9781399726368

The Ministry of Time

The Instant Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller

Häftad,  Engelska, 2025-03-27
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One of the 18 best novels of the year for the Sunday Times A book of the year for the New York Times, Guardian, Independent, Evening Standard, Spectator, Red, NPR, Vanity Fair, People, Slate, Advocate, Sydney Morning Herald, Globe and Mail, Den of Geek, Good Housekeeping, Goodreads, NetGalley and Smithsonian Magazine 'The most talked-about debut of 2024 . . . The combination of whimsy and high seriousness works brilliantly' SUNDAY TIMES, The 18 best novels of the year 'Smart, funny and moving, this debut has been the hit of the year' GUARDIAN, Five of the best science fiction books of 2024 'An addictive sci-fi romantic comedy . . . Laugh-out-loud funny and a suprisingly powerful meditation on the climate crisis, it's above all exciting, fun and a good old-fashioned page turner that you'll recommend to all your friends' INDEPENDENT, Best new books to read in 2024 'Simply adorable . . . It's the book I have recommended to friends with the most success' SPECTATOR, Books of the Year 'My book of the year. And I'd also like to nominate Graham as my "book boyfriend" of the year!' RED, Best books of the year 'Fast moving and riotously entertaining, a genre-busting blend of wit and wonder' OBSERVER, 10 best new novelists for 2024 'Terrific, moving . . . Crack this book open and you'll see how time can disappear' FINANCIAL TIMES 'I loved its combination of extreme whimsy, high seriousness and cool understatement' THE TIMES 'Utterly winning . . . Readers, I envy you: There's a smart, witty novel in your future' WASHINGTON POST 'Clever, witty and thought-provoking' KATE MOSSE, author of The Ghost Ship 'Make room on your bookshelves for a new classic' MAX PORTER, author of Shy 'As electric, charming, whimsical and strange as its ripped-from-history cast' EMILY HENRY, author of Happy Place 'Thought-provoking and horribly clever - but it also made me laugh out loud' ALICE WINN, author of In Memoriam 'A weird, kind, clever, heartsick little time bomb of a book' FRANCIS SPUFFORD, author of Golden Hill A Barack Obama reading pick A civil servant is offered a lucrative job in a mysterious new government ministry gathering 'expats' from across history to test whether time-travel is feasible. Her role is to work as a 'bridge': living with, supporting and monitoring expat '1847' - Commander Graham Gore, a former Victorian polar explorer. Gore, an adventurer by trade, soon adjusts to this bizarre new world of washing machines, feminism and Spotify; and during a long, sultry summer the pair move from awkwardness to friendship to something more. But as the true shape of the project that brought them together begins to emerge, Gore and the bridge are forced to confront their past choices and imagined futures. Can love triumph over the histories that have shaped them? And how do you defy that history when it is living in your house? Shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction Longlisted for the Climate Fiction Prize
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The debut of the year by a distance . . . propulsive and exhilarating -- Five of the year's best summer reads * Observer * What a thrill to come to Kaliane Bradley's debut, The Ministry of Time, a novel where things happen, lots of them, and all of them are exciting to read about and interesting to think about . . . give in to the tide of this book, and let it pull you along. It's very smart; it's very silly; and the obvious fun never obscures completely the sheer, gorgeous, wild stretch of her ideas -- Ella Risbridger * Guardian * Terrific, moving . . . Bradley's writing is clear and stylish, her dialogue dry and sprightly; the serious matters of love and mortality are cloaked in humour, but never too heavily. If you loved Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveller's Wife, or the big hit of 2022, Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, this will be right up your street . . . don't wait for this tale to come to the small screen. Crack this book open and you'll see how time can disappear -- Erica Wagner * Financial Times * Simply adorable . . . It's the book I have recommended to friends with the most success -- Books of the Year * Spectator * This is extraordinary writing, with unforgettable characters and a spine tingling love affair, and manages to be both a serious look at the weight of history and an absolute riot. A true original -- Francesca Steele * i Newspaper * I loved its combination of extreme whimsy, high seriousness and cool understatement - and migration-as-time-travel is a clever conceit -- Johanna Thomas-Corr * The Times * Fizzing with sharp one-liners about everything from Tinder to e-scooters, the novel is also a thoughtful meditation on imperialism and immigration -- 50 of the best new books to dive into * Guardian * An addictive sci-fi romantic comedy . . . Laugh-out-loud funny and a suprisingly powerful meditation on the climate crisis, it's above all exciting, fun and a good old-fashioned page turner that you'll recommend to all your friends -- Best new books to read in 2024 * Independent * A thoughtful dive into colonialism via time-travelling expats, the perfect beach read with some literary heft . . . Bradley's debut is also acute on what refuge means in a swiftly changing world -- Nilanjana Roy, Journalists pick their favourite book of 2024 so far * Financial Times * Smart, funny and moving, this debut has been the hit of the year -- Five of the best science fiction books of 2024 * Guardian * Intelligent and witty . . . a clever, funny yarn that breathes fresh air into time-travel novels, postcolonial narratives and romance stories alike . . . a sparkling delight -- Bidisha Mamata * Observer * A triumph -- Sara Lawrence * Daily Mail * Comedy, betrayal and romance collide in a story that explores everything from climate change and colonialism to friendship, hope and forgiveness. Start backing out of your weekend plans now . . . -- Book of the Week * Stylist * A powerfully drawn love story, an insider's takedown of murky bureaucracy, an action thriller . . . It's a fun ride * Evening Standard * A lot of fun - a romantic comedy wrapped in a science fiction premise with plenty of thought-provoking observations on history. I'm loving it -- Cathy Rentzenbrink * Daily Mail * This romp of a spy thriller-meets-romance sees a civil servant help a time traveller from 1847 adjust to the modern world. But they soon question the program that united them -- The best 10 books of 2024 * People * One of 2024's best debuts so far, the book is both goofy and emphatically serious - a time-travelling romcom that's also a subtle rumination on the legacies of empire and colonialism -- Best summer books * Financial Times * The book I recommended most often and with the most success this year . . . Fun but not frivolous, intelligent but not belaboured, The Ministry of Time is utterly winning -- The 10 best books of 2024

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Kaliane Bradley is a British-Cambodian writer and editor based in London. Her short stories have appeared in Electric Literature, Catapult, Somesuch Stories and The Willowherb Review, among others. She was the winner of the 2022 Harper's Bazaar Short Story Prize and the 2022 V. S. Pritchett Short Story Prize. The Ministry of Time is her first novel.