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Fiction Literary

No Pain Like This Body /tp

by (author) Harold Sonny Ladoo

Publisher
House of Anansi Press Inc
Initial publish date
Aug 2003
Category
Literary
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780887846892
    Publish Date
    Aug 2003
    List Price
    $19.95

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Description

Set in a turn-of-the-century Hindu community in the Eastern 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.

With a foreword by Dionne Brand.

About the author

Harold Sonny Ladoo was born and grew up in Trinidad. Like many writers of his generation, he went abroad, emigrating to Canada in 1968, where he published No Pain Like This Body. Shortly afterwards, in 1973, Ladoo died an untimely and violent death on a visit home to Calcutta Settlement, Trinidad. He was 28. Ladoo's novel Yesterdays appeared posthumously in 1974.

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