The Five Wounds, The companion volume · Trailer

The Third Woman: the trailer

One house at night, seen only from her side of the floor. The ink moves forward, the pencil comes back years later, and the camera never goes below the ninth stair. 96 seconds, 4K, with sound. Every line on screen is the book's own.

1. 0:008:40
2. 0:09The ledger
3. 0:216:40
4. 0:30The section
5. 0:42Forty-one
6. 0:52Fifty cycles
7. 1:01Carried forward
8. 1:11The ninth stair
9. 1:19The Third Woman

Every line on screen, with its time

1. 0:008:40A candle in a power cut, Nandita, and a date in ballpoint. There is a person in every family who is told last.
2. 0:09The ledgerSums from the front of a blue account book, a diary from the back, meeting on one line.
3. 0:216:40A phone on a kitchen shelf, every second Sunday. Has he taken his medicine?
4. 0:30The sectionThe house drawn in section, and a light going down nine stairs. Nine stairs down. Eleven minutes. Nine stairs up.
5. 0:42Forty-oneForty-one electricity bills in a row. A house does not have a habit. A house has an appliance.
6. 0:52Fifty cyclesThe porch bulb, always on. Whatever my husband has, he has it under my floor.
7. 1:01Carried forwardOne terrace across the Diwalis: more lamps, more lemons, more books. Nobody hands you the truth in the shape of a truth.
8. 1:11The ninth stairI went down.
9. 1:19The Third WomanThe title, in red ink. I keep the books in this house. Manu Vishranti.

Everything in it, and much more, is on the book's own page. Start reading The Third Woman freeNow the book itself