No Pain like This Body

Book Description
First published by Anansi in 1972, No Pain Like This Body remains a classic of Canadian and Caribbean writing. Set in a turn-of-the-century Hindu community in the Eastern Caribbean, the novel describes the perilous existence of a poor rice-growing family during the August rainy season. Their struggles to cope with illness, a drunken and unpredictable father, and the violence of the elements end in unbearable loss. Through vivid, vertiginous prose, and with brilliant economy and originality, Ladoo creates a fearful world of violation and grief, in the face of which even the most despairing efforts to endure stand out as acts of raw courage.

About the Author
Harold Sonny Ladoo is the author of Yesterdays. He was born in Trinidad before he went abroad, emigrating to Canada in 1968. He died an untimely and violent death on a visit home to Calcutta Settlement, Trinidad, at the age of 28. Dionne Brand is the author of At the Full and Change of the Moon, Land to Light On, and A Map to the Door of No Return.


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First published by Anansi in 1972, and set in an early twentieth-century Hindu community in the Easter Caribbean, No Pain Like This Body describes the perilous existence of a poor rice-growing family during the August rainy season. Their struggles to cope with illness, a drunken and unpredictable father, and the violence of the elements end in unbearable loss. Through vivid, vertiginous prose, and with brilliant economy and originality, Ladoo creates a fearful world of violation and grief, in the face of which even the most despairing efforts to endure stand out as acts of raw courage.


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