The Rainbow

<''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<>

Info autore

Yasunari Kawabata

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Yasunari Kawabata, Kawabata Yasunari
• Con la collaborazione di: Haydn Trowell (Traduzione)
• Editore: Penguin Books Uk
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 17.10.2024
• EAN: 9780241542293
• ISBN: 978-0-241-54229-3
• Pagine: 224
• Dimensioni: 129 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Serie: Penguin Modern Classics
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Japan, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Family Life / Siblings, Fiction in translation, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, FICTION / World Literature / Japan, 1945–1989 (Japanese post-war Showa period)