No Pain Like This Body - Couverture souple

Ladoo, Harold Sonny

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1770893741 ISBN 13 : 9781770893740

Editeur : House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada, 2013

Synopsis

The A List edition of Harold Sonny Ladoo's enduring novel, a raw, unsentimental story of life in a small Caribbean community. Featuring a new introduction by David Chariandy

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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. He was twenty-eight. Ladoo's novel Yesterdays appeared posthumously in 1974.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1770893741
• ISBN 13: 9781770893740
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 152
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