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"""Holy smokes, this novel is an absolute cut above! Kaliane Bradley leaps into a storytelling league of her own. This book is deadly serious speculative fiction, but it is also one of the funniest books I've read in years. It's exciting, surprising, intellectually provocative, weird, radical, tender, and moving. I missed it when I was away from it. I will hurry to re-read it. Make room on your bookshelves for a new classic."" --Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers ""An outrageously brilliant debut. . . This is already the best new book I will have read next year."" --Eleanor Catton, author of Birnam Wood ""Hugely enjoyable: ingeniously constructed, beautifully written, and unexpectedly sexy. It is the rarest of creations: a boldly entertaining page-tuner that is also deeply, thoughtfully engaged with our past, present and future."" --Joanna Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Whalebone Theatre ""Kaliane Bradley writes with the maximalist confidence of P. G. Wodehouse, but also with the page-turning pining of Sally Rooney. It's thought-provoking and horribly clever--but it also made me laugh out loud."" --Alice Winn, author of In Memoriam ""A fantastic debut: conceptually brilliant, really funny, genuinely moving, written in the most exquisite language and with a wonderful articulation of the knotty complexities of a mixed-race heritage."" --Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime ""Sly and illusionless in its use of history, lovely in its sentences, warm--no, hotter than that--in its characterisation, devastating in its denouement. A weird, kind, clever, heartsick little time bomb of a book."" --Francis Spufford, author of Golden Hill ""What a stunning and remarkable wonder! What if time travel was run by a bureaucracy? . . . There's something here for everyone - world history, side-splitting humour, lusty tension, brilliant prose, and characters to root for desperately. Bradley describes someone in the novel as being ""sweaty and vibeless"", but I want to counter with this: The Ministry of Time is the most vibe-forward book I have ever read."" - Vanessa Chan, author of The Storm We Made"

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

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