SIN DOLOR by T. Coraghessan Boyle

This is a freak short story. The boy named Damaso does not feel pain, even if his leg is broken or his hand is burned. The doctor and his colleague try to study his case by extracting his DNA sample, but it was after his burial that the doctor meets Damaso again. Damaso’s father abuses him by putting on a freak show in which the father burns his arm or pierces his arm with a pin in the street. Damaso finally dies jumping from a three story building. I do not understand why he jumped from the building. The writer fails to show enough facts that leads his final death. A sad story. I admire the writer for making a very unique, unrealistic but persuasive story. Tom Coraghessan Boyle (born Thomas John Boyle, also known as T.C. Boyle, born on December 2, 1948) is a U.S. novelist and short story writer. Since the mid 1970s, he has published twelve novels and more than 100 short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988,[1] for his third novel, World's End, which recounts 300 years in upstate New York.