{"product_id":"the-rainbow-9780241542286","title":"The Rainbow","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this masterpiece Kawabata, his brush dipped in silver, renders all the excruciating anguish and beauty of post-war Japan' Edmund WhiteWith 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,and The Rainbowand is a searing, melancholy work from one of Japan's greatest writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yasunari Kawabata","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44212958658620,"sku":"9780241542286","price":2965.5,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/7706\/7836\/files\/9780241542286_201_2014a06b-9537-4ea8-b2ab-cd656252819e.jpg?v=1776704445","url":"https:\/\/libertybooksstore.myshopify.com\/products\/the-rainbow-9780241542286","provider":"LibertyBooksStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}