'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

ÖVRIGT:
Mediatyp: Bok
Bandtyp: Pocket
Författare: Yasunari Kawabata
Förlag: Penguin Books Ltd.
Språk: Engelska
Omfång: 224 sidor
Mått (bxhxd): 129x198x35 mm
Vikt: 500 gram
Illustrerad: Nej

Streckkod: 9780241542293
SKU: 809690