{"product_id":"9780241542286","title":"The Rainbow","description":"\u003cp\u003e'In this masterpiece Kawabata, his brush dipped in silver, renders all the excruciating anguish and beauty of post-war Japan' Edmund White\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTranslated by Haydn Trowell\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48225992802539,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":41.23,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9780241542286-1.jpg?v=1781613760","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9780241542286","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}