No pain like this body
Subtitle: a novel
By: Harold Sonny Ladoo ; introduction by Dionne Brand.
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Toronto, ON
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.