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The Five Wounds · Trailer

The Five Wounds: the trailer

It opens with a line written in a register, tells the six books in their own back cover lines, and lets the people speak for themselves. 64 seconds, 4K, with sound. Everything in it is the books' own: their drawings, their people and their words.

  1. 0:00The register
  2. 0:06One family, thirty years
  3. 0:13Six books
  4. 0:34Every one of them is carrying something
  5. 0:45Thirty years at once
  6. 0:52Until somebody asks
  7. 0:55The Five Wounds
  8. 1:02Out now in paperback
Every line on screen, with its time
  1. 0:00The registerMEHRA, KAMLA. 51. Mitral. Rheumatic. Dispensary.
  2. 0:06One family, thirty yearsA bride stepping down from a bus, then the years folding open, from the lamps on the river to a night platform.
  3. 0:13Six booksA surgeon with an unbroken record and a locked room. A woman who counted a whole town and left one line in a register. A postmaster carrying the letter he chose not to deliver. A family that buys its life in sanctioned hours. A man with no surname, looking for the word that is his. And the wife who was told last, who wrote all of it down.
  4. 0:34Every one of them is carrying somethingKamla, Raghunath, Dev Mehra and Nandita, in their own words.
  5. 0:45Thirty years at onceA corridor of the drawings from all six books, and the small arrangements that hold a house together.
  6. 0:52Until somebody asksuntil somebody asks what they cost.
  7. 0:55The Five WoundsThe title, and the six books standing: five novels and one companion volume.
  8. 1:02Out now in paperbackManu Vishranti.

Everything in it, and much more, is on the series page. Start reading Clean Hands freeNow the books themselves