The Rainbow

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, Beyond the Rainbow is a searing, melancholy work from one of Japan''s greatest writers.>

Product details

• Authors: Yasunari Kawabata, Kawabata Yasunari
• Assisted by: Haydn Trowell (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2023
• EAN: 9780241542286
• ISBN: 978-0-241-54228-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 216 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Japan, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Classics, Fiction in translation, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, FICTION / World Literature / Japan, 1945–1989 (Japanese post-war Showa period)