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  • Published: 1 July 2021
  • ISBN: 9781473597365
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $19.99

No Pain Like This Body

The forgotten classic masterpiece of Trinidadian literature




A Faulkner-esque Classic of Trinidadian literature - No Pain Like This Body is a lost masterpiece of contemporary fiction.

With an introduction by Monique Roffey - this is her favourite book by a Trinidadian novelist.

'A masterpiece of hurt' The New York Times
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.

  • Published: 1 July 2021
  • ISBN: 9781473597365
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $19.99

Praise for No Pain Like This Body

I have read the book several times and it is my favourite novel written by a Trinidadian novelist hands down. It deserves to be known

Monique Roffey, Independent

It is a book whose enduring gift is that someone had the courage to write it, without illusions, beneath a black sky

David Chariandry

Rereading this book has given me the gift of seeing it not only as an ode to violence, as it has come to be characterized, but also as a compassionate work by its end. I am indeed in love with this book.

Shani Mootoo

Luminous and harrowing

Times Literary Supplement