No Pain Like This Body: A Novel

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.

• Author
• Harold Sonny Ladoo, Dionne Brand

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 160

• Publisher
• House of Anansi Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780887846892

• Genres
• fiction, canada, contemporary, school, novels

• Release date
• 2003