# The Rainbow

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- Authors: [Yasunari Kawabata](https://www.bookquiver.com/yasunari-kawabata)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2023-11-09

## Description

With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two half 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.

## Editions

### The Rainbow

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4154-229-3
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2024-10-17
- Language: en_GB

### The Rainbow

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4199-870-1
- Published: 2023-11-09
- Language: en_GB

### The Rainbow

- Publisher: Penguin
- Translated by: Haydn Trowell
- Medium: audio
- Length: 5 h 55 min
- Narrated by: Ami Okumura Jones
- ISBN: 978-18-0206-354-7
- Published: 2023-11-09
- Language: en_GB

### The Rainbow

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-05-9331-492-0
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2023-11-07
- Language: en_US