The Rainbow
Author(s): Yasunari Kawabata; Haydn Trowell (Translator)
With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two half 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 Rainbowis a searing, melancholy work from one of Japan's greatest writers.
General Information
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- : Penguin Canada
- : Penguin Canada
- : 171.0
- : 16 October 2024
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Yasunari Kawabata; Haydn Trowell (Translator)
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 224
- : FC