{"product_id":"no-pain-like-this-body-9781770893740","title":"No Pain Like This Body","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSet in the Eastern Caribbean at the beginning of the twentieth century, \u003cem\u003eNo Pain Like this Body\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHarold Sonny Ladoo was born and grew up in Trinidad. He emigrated to Canada in 1968, where he published \u003ci\u003eNo Pain Like This Body\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 \u003ci\u003eYesterdays\u003c\/i\u003e appeared posthumously in 1974.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"A List","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50362899071250,"sku":"9781770893740","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8f703f61-4ad9-419d-bfc9-033edbabd909.jpg?v=1728398212","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/no-pain-like-this-body-9781770893740","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}