{"product_id":"the-rainbow-kawabata-yasunari","title":"The Rainbow:  Kawabata; Yasunari","description":"\u003cp\u003eA powerful, poignant novel about three half sisters in post-war Japan, from the Nobel Prize-winning author of. With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two half 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, is a searing, melancholy work from one of Japan's greatest writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43572202307620,"sku":"9780241542293","price":26.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/2253\/5460\/files\/9780241542293.jpg?v=1771675806","url":"https:\/\/whimsyandwonder.co.nz\/products\/the-rainbow-kawabata-yasunari","provider":"Whimsy \u0026 Wonder","version":"1.0","type":"link"}