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No pain like this body : a novel

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    2013
    Summary:

    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.

    Original Publisher: Toronto, House of Anansi Press
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781487011093, 1487011091