num_pages: 160
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.
language: English
title: No Pain Like This Body
titlecomplete: No Pain Like This Body
genres: Classics, Novels, School, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Canada
ratings_count: 142
publisher: House of Anansi Press