No Pain Like This Body

Set in the Eastern Caribbean at the beginning of the twentieth century, 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 courage.


Author: Harold Sonny Ladoo
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
Published: 09/24/2013
Pages: 129
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781770893740
ISBN10: 1770893741
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary

About the Author
Harold Sonny Ladoo was born and grew up in Trinidad. He emigrated 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 twenty-eight. Ladoo's novel Yesterdays appeared posthumously in 1974.