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With an introduction by Monique Roffey—this is her favourite book by a Trinidadian novelist.

Set in the Eastern Caribbean at the beginning of the 20th 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.

©2022 Harold Sonny Ladoo and Monique Roffey (P)2022 Penguin Audio Classics Family Life Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction World Literature

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"A masterpiece of hurt." (The New York Times)
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