# The Rainbow

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- Book: [The Rainbow](https://www.bookquiver.com/yasunari-kawabata/the-rainbow) ([The Rainbow.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/yasunari-kawabata/the-rainbow.md))
- Authors: [Yasunari Kawabata](https://www.bookquiver.com/yasunari-kawabata)
- 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
- Binding: Audiobook · 5 h 55 min

## Description

Brought to you by Penguin. 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. ©2023 Yasunari Kawabata (P)2023 Penguin Audio