| Uniform title | Niji ikutabi. English |
| Contents |
The winter rainbow -- Traces of dreams -- The color of flames -- Spring in Kyoto -- Black camellias -- Flower braziers -- The Katsura imperial villa -- The bridge of life -- The silver breast -- Behind the ear -- The painted rainbow -- Autumn leaves -- The river's edge -- The rainbow road. |
| Abstract |
"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." -- Back cover. |
| General note | Subtitle from cover. |
| General note | "A Vintage International original" -- Title page verso. |
| General note | "Originally published in Japan as Niji Ikutabi in Fuijin Seikatsu, serialized from 1950 to 1951 and subsequently collected in The complete works of Yasunari Kawabata (Vol. 12) published by Shinchosha, Tokyo, in 1951"--Title page verso. |
| Language | Translated from the Japanese. |
| Genre/form | Domestic fiction. |
| Genre/form | Novels. |
| Genre/form | Romans. |
| ISBN | 9780593314920 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 0593314921 (pbk.) |
| Stock number | Random House Inc, Attn Order Entry 400 Hahn rd, Westminster, MD, USA, 21157 SAN 201-3975 |
