<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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. <BR>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.<BR><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Set in the Eastern Caribbean at the beginning of the twentieth century, <i>No Pain Like this Body</i> 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. <p/>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.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Harold Sonny Ladoo was born and grew up in Trinidad. He emigrated to Canada in 1968, where he published <i>No Pain Like This Body</i>. Shortly afterwards, in 1973, Ladoo died an untimely and violent death on a visit home to Calcutta Settlement, Trinidad. He was twenty-eight. Ladoo's novel <i>Yesterdays</i> appeared posthumously in 1974.