The Five Wounds · Book Two
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29 chapters · about 3.8 hours of reading
Contents of Peacetime
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- For the Reader Who Comes from Clean Hands3 minFree
- Part One · Wood Smoke
- 01The Bride Who Counted the Rice12 minFree
- 02A Voice at Midnight6 minFree
- 03The Year of Trenches5 min₹19
- 04The Queue7 min₹19
- 05The Quota10 min₹19
- 06Ink on the Thumb6 min₹19
- 07What Peace Sounded Like7 min₹19
- Part Two · The Legend Years
- 08The Water Year11 min₹19
- 09Relief10 min₹19
- 10The Falling Sky5 min₹19
- 11The Box6 min₹19
- 12The Month of the Fever9 min₹19
- 13The Ground4 min₹19
- 14The Shut Shops of November9 min₹19
- 15Parda12 min₹19
- 16The Objection7 min₹19
- 17Tareekh8 min₹19
- 18The Wells11 min₹19
- 19Marks4 min₹19
- Part Three · The Blue Flame
- 20The Blue Flame6 min₹19
- 21Eleven Nights of Zari6 min₹19
- 22The Booth7 min₹19
- 23Masks and Crowns5 min₹19
- 24Counterfeit13 min₹19
- 25Home Ground6 min₹19
- 26The Second Stool13 min₹19
- 27The Night11 min₹19
- 28What Was Kept11 min₹19
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Book Two of The Five Wounds
About Peacetime
Kamla came to the dispensary town as a bride of nineteen, and for thirty years she counted. She counted what was owed and what was short, whose child had not eaten, which of her husband’s patients had stopped coming. Nobody outside the lane knew her name and nobody inside it could manage without her. At fifty-one, offered the operation that would save her, she refused, and left one line in a register that would govern her son’s whole life. The quietest book of the five, and the one holding up the other four.
With Kamla, Raghunath, Dev Mehra, Ira.
By Manu Vishranti. Paperback from Walnut Publication, 205 pages, ISBN 978-93-6926-308-0, 361 rupees on Amazon and Flipkart. The book's own page, with its people and scenes.
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