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The Ministry of Time is Kaliane Bradley's debut novel, a blend of time travel romance, spy thriller, workplace comedy, and exploration of power and love's potential to change the future. The novel follows a civil servant who is offered a salary and is tasked with working as a "bridge" to a government ministry that gathers expats from across history to determine the feasibility of time travel. The bridge's relationship with Commander Graham Gore, who died on Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition to the Arctic, evolves into a deeper relationship, and the bridge must confront the choices that brought them together and how her actions can change the future.

• Language: English
• Publisher: XinXii
• Release date: May 14, 2024
• ISBN: 9783989838994

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Summary of The Ministry of Time a novel by Kaliane Bradley

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The narrator is cold and unsure of his fate, but his thoughts are translucent and free-swimming. He knows he is walking, but can't feel it. He has a gun and bag, but his mood is good. In the distance, he hears cannons re, signaling a ship.

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The author recounts her experience as the Vice Secretary of Expatriation at the Ministry of Home Affairs in the UK. She was asked about her mother's refugee background, which she answered as Cambodia. The author was surprised to learn that her mother would never refer to herself as a refugee or even a former refugee. The author also learned that the British government had developed the means to travel through time but had not yet experimented with doing so.

The author explains that the British government had not yet experimented with time-travel, and it was necessary to extract people from historical war zones, natural disasters, and epidemics to avoid chaos and avoid impacting the future. The author also discusses the potential physiological effects of traveling through time on the human body, and how it might affect the human nervous system.

The author suggests that dealing with refugees as people is better than treating them as people, as it complicates paperwork. However, when considering expats from a human rights perspective, they meet the Home Office criteria for asylum seekers. To assess their adjustment to the future, the expats needed to live in a facility monitored by a full-time companion.

Language has evolved over time, with sensitive now meaning sensitive, gay now meaning jolly, and lunatic asylum and asylum seeker both using the same basic meaning of asylum: an inviolable place of refuge and safety. The author was told they were bringing the expats to safety, refusing to see the blood and hair on the floor of the madhouse.

The author is a translator-consultant in the Languages department of the Ministry of Defence, working as a translator-consultant specializing in Southeast Asia, particularly Cambodia. He has a background in political science and was once a prime minister, but his political career was over before it began. His younger sister, a skilled dissembler, became a writer and a copy editor, and they were paid considerably more than her.

As they meet the expats, they argue about the word expat. Simellia, one of the other bridges, believes that they should call them refugees, but Vice Secretary Adela argues that they will not necessarily think of themselves as refugees. They also discuss their adjustment to the country, which has never accepted expatriates from history before.

The Ministry's chamber for the handover has an air of antique ceremony, with wood panels, oil paintings, and high ceilings. The author's handler, Quentin, looks bilious, but the author is excited to be there

Graham Gore, the commander of the Royal Navy, has been in the twenty-first century for five weeks and has been treated for pneumonia, severe frostbite, scurvy, and broken toes. He has