The rainbow
Kawabata, Yasunari, 1899-19722023
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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.
Main title:
The rainbow / Yasunari Kawabata ; translated from the Japanese by Haydn Trowell.
Author:
Kawabata, Yasunari, 1899-1972, authorTrowell, Haydn, translator
Work:
Imprint:
[London] : Penguin Books, 2023.©2023
Collation:
215 pages ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Originally published Niji ikutabi Tokyo : Shinchosha, 1951.Translated from the Japanese.
ISBN:
9780241542286 (paperback)9780593314920
Dewey class:
895.634F
Language:
EnglishJapanese
Subject:
BRN:
2130416