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Harold Sonny Ladoo’s No Pain Like This Body has all the gritty concentration of such an experience. How can I say this of a novel so unrelentingly brutal. Because No Pain Like This Body is a novel that strips its reader of sentimentality of any kind – pity or superiority

Harold Sonny Ladoo’s No Pain Like This Body has all the gritty concentration of such an experience. II. I went to school with Ladoo. I did not know him except in the nodding acknowledgement one makes at impromptu gatherings of people who think that they are or ought to be associated by race or country of origin or some recognized affinity through colonialism. Because No Pain Like This Body is a novel that strips its reader of sentimentality of any kind – pity or superiority. It is a novel unconcerned with anything but truth-telling. And because peace is nothing without the truth, I suspect for Ladoo this was obvious.

First published by Anansi in 1972, No Pain Like This Body remains a classic of Canadian and Caribbean writing

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.

He grew up in the Caribbean, working in the cane fields and on the boats.

He grew up in the Caribbean, working in the cane fields and on the boats f Toronto. In 1972 he graduated with a BA and in September House of Anansi Press published his first novel, No Pain Like This Body.

Outside of the Caribbean region, few people have heard of Harold Sonny Ladoo and his novel No Pain Like . Ladoo never got to mature as a writer. He was killed soon after he wrote this book

Outside of the Caribbean region, few people have heard of Harold Sonny Ladoo and his novel No Pain Like This Body and yet, first published in 1972, it is considered a classic of Caribbean literature. A year after publication, the author was found dead by the side of a road in rural Trinidad, some say murdered for bringing shame on his family and community. He was killed soon after he wrote this book. I have read the book several times and it is my favourite novel written by a Trinidadian novelist hands down.

First published by Anansi in 1972, No Pain Like This Body remains a classic of Canadian and Caribbean writing. Author Harold Sonny Ladoo left the world too soon in 1973 when he was found murdered on a return visit to Trinidad. The only novel published in his lifetime, NO PAIN LIKE THIS BODY, is a rich and beautifully-told episode of a family's life in poverty-stricken Trinidad.

Harold Sonny Ladoo’s amazing and surprisingly overlooked novel No Pain Like This Bodyfrom 1972 is a novel in. .Part of the Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies book series (GSLS).

Harold Sonny Ladoo’s amazing and surprisingly overlooked novel No Pain Like This Bodyfrom 1972 is a novel in which place appears in several modes of experience. Harold Sonny Ladoo’s amazing and surprisingly overlooked novel No Pain Like This Body from 1972 is a novel in which place appears in several modes of experience. The novel has sprung from the very particular historical experience that characterizes the Caribbean.

Harold Sonny Ladoo was born and grew up in Trinidad The conditions under which East Indians worked were cruel, and NO PAIN LIKE THIS BODY recounts the legacy of this elemental struggle in its tale of a poor Trinidadian.

Harold Sonny Ladoo was born and grew up in Trinidad. He emigrated to Canada in 1968, where he published No Pain Like This Body. Shortly afterwards, in 1973, Ladoo died an untimely and violent death on a visit home to Calcutta Settlement, Trinidad. The conditions under which East Indians worked were cruel, and NO PAIN LIKE THIS BODY recounts the legacy of this elemental struggle in its tale of a poor Trinidadian family during the rainy season in Trinidad. The themes of brutality, of supertitious clinging to the old beliefs, of fate emerge in an intense day-in-the-life-of a village community.

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Harold Sonny Ladoo (1945 – 1973) is a Caribbean novelist and author of two books documenting the struggles of.It was during this time that he wrote his first and most notable novel "No pain like this body", published in 1972.

Harold Sonny Ladoo (1945 – 1973) is a Caribbean novelist and author of two books documenting the struggles of living in poverty in the Hindu communities of Trinidad and Tobago. Ladoo was born and grew up in an environment much like the world of his novels. He was born in Trinidad into extreme poverty and immigrated to Toronto, Canada with his wife and son in 1968 to study English at the University of Toronto. It was during this time that he wrote his first and most notable novel "No pain like this body", published in 1972