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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

Book details

• Full title: Rainbow
• Author: Yasunari Kawabata
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics,
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• EAN: 9780241542293
• ID: 44719178
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 172 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 129 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. October 2024

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