A List
No Pain Like This Body
Written by Harold Sonny Ladoo • Introduction by David Chariandy

About this book
No Pain Like This Body
A List
Harold Sonny Ladoo • David Chariandy
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.
About the Author
Harold Sonny Ladoo
Harold Sonny Ladoo is the author of No Pain Like This Body and Yesterdays. He died in 1973 at the age of 28.