The Rainbow by Yasunari Kawabata, translated from the Japanese by Hadyn Trowell, is the book club choice for November.
Date: Tuesday 11 November 2025
Time: 18.30 to 19.30 IST
Location: Online via Zoom
All are welcome and admission is free. For further information and to book your free ticket, please click here.
Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation, Trinity College Dublin
The book club welcomes people from all round the world for a discussion about a work of fiction which has recently been translated into English. Meetings are on Zoom once each month during Trinity's term time. Admission is free, and all are welcome.
About the book - from the book cover:
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, The Rainbow is a searing, melancholy work from one of Japan's greatest writers.
For further information on the book please click here.
For further details of the TCLCT book club please visit their website here: https://www.tcd.ie/literary-translation/bookclub/index.php
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For further information about the Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation please visit their website at: https://www.tcd.ie/literary-translation/