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The Rainbow

By Yasunari Kawabata

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The Rainbow

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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
Number of Pages:
224
Release Date:
2023-11-09
Publication Date:
2023-11-09
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0241542286
ISBN13:
9780241542286
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
242 g
Height:
137 cm
Width:
208 cm
Thickness:
22 cm

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