Set in a Hindu community in the Eastern Caribbean, in vivid, unsentimental prose, this book describes the life of a poor rice-growing family during the August rainy season. Their struggle to cope with illness, a drunken father and the violence of the elements is set against a village community.

No Pain Like This Body (Caribbean Writers Series)

Literature & Fiction

Ladoo, Harold Sonny

Genre Fiction

Heinemann

"Yesterdays is a bawdy, outrageously funny novel of West Indian life, detailing young Poonwa's attempt to launch a Hindu Mission to Canada. Dominating the story is Choonilal, pressured to sell his property to finance this dubious scheme. We meet the motley cast of village characters, and the intrigue is enriched by a wealth of island lore, as everyone gossips and reminisces about their own yesterdays."

Yesterdays

House of Anansi Pr

No pain like this body

Literary

anansi

Yesterdays is a bawdy, outrageously funny novel of West Indian life, detailing young Poonwa's attempt to launch a Hindu Mission to Canada. Dominating the story is Choonilal, pressured to sell his property to finance this dubious scheme. We meet the motley cast of village characters, and the intrigue is enriched by a wealth of island lore, as everyone gossips and reminisces about their own yesterdays.

First published by Anansi in 1972, No Pain Like This Body remains a classic of Canadian and Caribbean writing. Set in a turn-of-the-century Hindu community in the Eastern Caribbean, the novel 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 raw courage.

No Pain Like This Body

House of Anansi Press

Humor & Satire

Coach House Books

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.

No Pain Like This Body (A List)

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Nulle douleur comme ce corps

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