The Rainbow
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Ami Okumura Jones
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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 AudioCritic reviews
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- Anonymous User
- 16-09-24
Revelation; beautiful
Read a review saying this is an " eztebded haiku", and I can think of no better way of describing it.
Anxious that haven't been to Japan and might forget plàcevames, I ran it at 0.95 speed. I recommend it makes it last longer? But Audible, please note: the end credits clunked in less than a second after the of book, so I had to rewind to grasp the last image.
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