The Ministry Of Time
1.290 kr.In the near future, a disaffected civil servant is offered a lucrative job in a mysterious new government ministry gathering ‘expats’ from across history to test the limits of time-travel.
Her role is to work as a ‘bridge’: living with, assisting and monitoring the expat known as ‘1847’ – Commander Graham Gore. As far as history is concerned, Commander Gore died on Sir John Franklin’s doomed expedition to the Arctic, so he’s a little disoriented to find himself alive and surrounded by outlandish concepts such as ‘washing machine’, ‘Spotify’ and ‘the collapse of the British Empire’. With an appetite for discovery and a seven-a-day cigarette habit, he soon adjusts; and during a long, sultry summer he and his bridge move from awkwardness to genuine 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 structures and histories that have shaped them? And how do you defy history when history is living in your house?
Tímaráðuneytið
4.690 kr.Ung kona sækir um háleynilegt og vellaunað starf á vegum hins opinbera í Bretlandi. Hún er ráðin og í ljós kemur að það tengist tímaferðalagsverkefni stjórnvalda sem reynist svo yfirgripsmikið að það þarfnast sérstaks ráðuneytis; tímaráðuneytis. Starfið felst í því að taka á móti einstaklingum sem hafa verið fluttir til nútímans frá fortíðinni og sjóliðsforinginn Graham Gore, þekktur nítjándu aldar maður sem tók þátt í frægum heimskautaleiðangri á skipinu Erebus, er fyrsti brottflutti einstaklingurinn sem hún aðstoðar við að aðlagast nútímanum. Brátt takast með þeim eldheitar ástir.
Tímaráðuneytið er allt í senn spennandi njósnatryllir, falleg ástarsaga sveipuð vísindaskáldsöguljóma og áleitin og djúp frásögn um það að tilheyra tilteknum stað og tíma. Þetta er fyrsta saga Kaliane Bradley og hefur hún slegið rækilega í gegn víða um heim. Hún var á metsölulista New York Times og valin besta bók ársins 2024 af ýmsum miðlum.
The Ministry Of Time
3.490 kr.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?
