The Ministry of Time is structured as a confessional narrative from the perspective of a rather ordinary British civil servant entrusted with an extraordinary responsibility. The U.K. has been cautiously experimenting with time travel, and they’ve brought five people from the past to present-day London, hoping to observe the toll that time travel and living in an unfamiliar era take on their bodies. Our unnamed narrator, a half-English, half-Cambodian second-generation immigrant, has been deemed a good fit to serve as a bridge for one of […]