No Pain Like This Body by Harold Sonny Ladoo

No Pain Like This Body by Harold Sonny Ladoo

'A masterpiece of hurt' The New York Times 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.

I have read the book several times and it is my favourite novel written by a Trinidadian novelist hands downIt deserves to be known -- Monique Roffey * Independent *
It is a book whose enduring gift is that someone had the courage to write it, without illusions, beneath a black sky -- David Chariandry
Rereading this book has given me the gift of seeing it not only as an ode to violence, as it has come to be characterized, but also as a compassionate work by its end. I am indeed in love with this book. -- Shani Mootoo
Luminous and harrowing * Times Literary Supplement *

Harold Sonny Ladoo (Author)
Harold Sonny Ladoo was born in Trinidad in 1945 and emigrated to Toronto in 1968 with his wife and two children. In 1972 he graduated from the University of Toronto and his first novel, No Pain Like This Body, was published, earning Ladoo immediate recognition as a new literary talent. The following year he returned to Trinidad to settle a land dispute but was murdered. He was just twenty-eight. His second novel, Yesterdays, was published posthumously in 1974.

Monique Roffey (Introducer)
Monique Roffey was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad. She is the author of six novels and a memoir. The Mermaid of Black Conch won the Costa Book of the Year and the Costa Novel Award 2020. It was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2021, the Goldsmiths Prize 2020 and the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2021, and longlisted for the Orwell Prize, the Ondaatje Prize and the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2021. Monique Roffey is a Senior Lecturer at the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University and a tutor for the National Writers Centre.

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ISBN 13	9781784877026
ISBN 10	1784877026
Title	No Pain Like This Body
Author	Harold Sonny Ladoo
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2022-08-04
Number of pages	224
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