{"product_id":"rainbow-the-2","title":"Rainbow, The","description":"‘In this masterpiece Kawabata, his brush dipped in silver, renders all the excruciating anguish and beauty of post-war Japan’ Edmund White\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Haydn Trowell","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51455901630811,"sku":"9780241542293","price":16.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/rainbow-the-2","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}