The Rainbow

Name: The Rainbow
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
SKU: 9780241542286-V
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By Yasunari Kawabata

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'In this masterpiece Kawabata, his brush dipped in silver, renders all the excruciating anguish and beauty of post-war Japan' Edmund White With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters - born to the same father but different mothers - struggle to make sense of the new world in which they are coming of age. Asako, the younger, has become obsessed with locating a third sibling, while also experiencing love for the first time. While Momoko, their father's first child - haunted by the loss of her kamikaze boyfriend and their final, disturbing days together - seeks comfort in a series of unhealthy romances. And both sisters find themselves unable to outrun the legacies of their late mothers. A thoughtful, probing novel about the enduring traumas of war, the unbreakable bonds of family and the inescapability of the past, The Rainbow is a searing, melancholy work from one of Japan's greatest writers. Translated by Haydn Trowell

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Languages:: Original: English
Number of Pages:: 224
Publisher:: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Date:: 2023-11-09
ISBN / EAN:: 9780241542286
Weight:: 242 g
Dimensions:: 14/21/2 cm
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]

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