No Pain Like This Body - The forgotten classic masterpiece of Trinidadian literature

'A masterpiece of hurt' The New York TimesSet 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.

About the 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 was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, and lives in London. She is the author of seven novels and a memoir. The Mermaid of Black Conch won the Costa Book of the Year and the Costa Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize. Her other highly acclaimed books include Archipelago, which won the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, The White Woman on the Green Bicycle and House of Ashes. In addition to her work as an environmental activist, she is a professor of contemporary fiction at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Summary

'A masterpiece of hurt' The New York TimesSet 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.

Product details

• Authors: Harold Sonny Ladoo, Ladoo Harold Sonny
• Assisted by: Monique Roffey (Introduction), Roffey Monique (Introduction)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781784877026
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-702-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 196 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, 20th Century, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Caribbean islands, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Trinidad & Tobago, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999