Yasunari Kawabata: The Rainbow, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Rainbow
- A Novel
- Publisher:
- Random House LLC US, 11/2023
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780593314920
- Item number:
- 11004801
- Volume:
- 215 Pages
- Weight:
- 213 g
- Format:
- 203 x 132 mm
- Thickness:
- 13 mm
- Release date:
- 7.11.2023
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Blurb
Available in English for the very first time, a powerful, poignant novel about three half sisters in post-war Japan, from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Snow Country.
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. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL.
Biography
Yasunari Kawabata, 1899-1972, in Osaka als Arztsohn geboren, studierte englische und japanische Literatur und wurde 1926 mit seiner längsten Erzählung 'Die Tänzerin von Izu' über die Grenzen Japans hinaus bekannt. 1968 erhielt er den Nobelpreis für Literatur. Von 1948 bis 1965 war Yasunari Kawabata Präsident des Japanischen PEN-Zentrums. Er hatte maßgeblichen Anteil an der Entwicklung der japanischen Literaturszene nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Im April 1972 nahm sich Kawabata in seiner Wohnung in der Nähe von Kamakura das Leben.
