No Pain Like This Body
- Schrijver: Harold Sonny Ladoo (Trinidad & Tobago)
- Soort boek: sociale roman
- Taal: Engels
- Eerste uitgave: 1972
- Uitgever heruitgave: Vintage Classics
- Verschijnt: 1 juli 2021
- Omvang: 170 pagina’s
- Uitgave: Paperback / Ebook
Recensie en waardering voor de roman van Harold Sunny Ladoo
- “A masterpiece of hurt.” (The New York Times)
Flaptekst van de roman uit Trinidad van Harold Sonny Ladoo
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.