The Five Wounds · Book Four
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In the Malhotra house, time was not a river. It was a bazaar. Some hours were cheap and some were ruinous and some were closed outright, and for three generations the family had shopped there for its entire life with one book as its only purse.
Marriages were bought in the bright stalls of the sanctioned fortnights. Business was forbidden in the dark lanes of the eighth month.
32 chapters · about 6 hours of reading
Contents of The House of Auspicious Hours
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- 01The Bazaar of HoursJuly 202916 minFree
- 02TicketJuly 202913 minFree
- 03The Folding ChairsOctober 202813 min₹19
- 04The PressJuly 202910 min₹19
- 05Nine O’ClockAugust 20299 min₹19
- 06Four Kilometres2020 to 20299 min₹19
- 07The ReadingAugust 202910 min₹19
- 08Whose CitySeptember 202911 min₹19
- 09The EnumeratorFebruary 202710 min₹19
- 10Two Hundred and Forty RupeesOctober 20299 min₹19
- 11The BeneficiaryNovember 20299 min₹19
- 12The Two ProfessionsDecember 202912 min₹19
- 13Four SecondsJanuary 20307 min₹19
- 14UpriverFebruary 203014 min₹19
- 15Chain of CustodyFebruary 20309 min₹19
- 16The Twelve HousesMarch 203013 min₹19
- 17The Trunk26 March 20309 min₹19
- 18The Page That Says Nothing27 March 203010 min₹19
- 19What It Is For27 March 203018 min₹19
- 20The One Who Followed the Officerthe night of 27 March 203013 min₹19
- 21The Ordinary Hour28 March 203012 min₹19
- 22The Setting of the Date29 March 203010 min₹19
- 23The TuesdaysDecember 2029 to October 203011 min₹19
- 24The Ninth YearMay 203010 min₹19
- 25Young EyesOctober 203020 min₹19
- 26Whatever Is Lying AroundApril to October 203020 min₹19
- 27Forty Seconds12 November 203010 min₹19
- 28The Fourth HouseJune 2030 to March 203112 min₹19
- 29The ArithmeticMarch 20318 min₹19
- 30The Library20312 min₹19
- 31The SearchMarch to August 203212 min₹19
- 32ReceivedAugust 20328 min₹19
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Book Four of The Five Wounds
About The House of Auspicious Hours
In the Malhotra house, time is a bazaar. Three generations have bought their whole lives in the sanctioned hours of one family almanac: marriages, businesses, the day a child may be born. Then the son who was born in the family’s first ambiguous hour discovers that the astrologer they have trusted for twenty years has been blind, and inventing the sky out of mercy. Not whether fate is real, but what a family is using it to hold up, and what falls when you take it away. The longest and the loudest of the five.
With Divya, Shanti Dadi, Kishori Lal, Myra, Adit, Umpire Baba, Ashu.
By Manu Vishranti. Paperback from Walnut Publication, 328 pages, ISBN 978-93-6926-311-0, 526 rupees on Amazon and Flipkart. The book's own page, with its people and scenes.
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