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No Pain Like This Body

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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.


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Publisher: House of Anansi Press Inc.

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  • ISBN: 9781770890855
  • Release date: September 6, 2011

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781770890855
  • File size: 605 KB
  • Release date: September 6, 2011

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subjects

Fiction Literature

Languages

English

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.


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