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Can I read No Pain Like This Body : A Novel on EtoBox?
No Pain Like This Body : A Novel by Ladoo, Harold Sonny, 1945-1973 is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is No Pain Like This Body : A Novel about?
Set in a turn-of-the-century Hindu community in the Eastern Caribbean, 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 raw courage.With a foreword by Dionne Brand.
Who reads No Pain Like This Body : A Novel?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Ladoo, Harold Sonny, 1945-1973
- Publisher
- General Publishing / Stoddart Publishing / House of Anansi Press
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780887846892
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 3.91 / 5 (58 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14