The A List edition of Harold Sonny Ladoo's enduring novel, a raw,
unsentimental story of life in a small Caribbean community. Featuring a
new introduction by David Chariandy
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.