Publication Date: 09/11/2023 ISBN: 9780241542286 Category:

The Rainbow

Yasunari Kawabata

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Date: 09/11/2023 ISBN: 9780241542286 Category:
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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

Publisher Review

Kawabata's novels are among the most affecting and original works of our time * The New York Times Book Review * Kawabata is a poet of the gentlest shades, of the evanescent, the imperceptible * Commonweal *

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