{"product_id":"9780241542293","title":"The Rainbow","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Yasunari Kawabata\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eClassic fiction (pre c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 17 October 2024 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Penguin Modern Classics' series.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 224 pages\u003cbr\u003e197 x 130 x 15mm | 172g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yasunari Kawabata","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56495273410885,"sku":"9780241542293","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9780241542293.jpg?v=1764260934","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9780241542293","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}