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The Rainbow

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SKU:
9780241542293
UPC:
9780241542293
Author:
Kawabata, Yasunari'
'ISBN:
9780241542293'
'Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd'
'Language:
English'
'Pages:
224 pages'
'Format:
Paperback'
'Published Date:
17/10/2024'
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Author: Kawabata, Yasunari

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Published on 17 October 2024 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Penguin Modern Classics' series.

Paperback | 224 pages
197 x 130 x 15 | 172g

‘In this masterpiece Kawabata, his brush dipped in silver, renders all the excruciating anguish and beauty of post-war Japan’ Edmund WhiteWith 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