Memoirs of a Geisha
| Title | Memoirs of a Geisha |
|---|---|
| Author | Arthur Golden |
| Publication | Vintage |
| Size | 496p |
| Language |  ENG |
| ISBN | 9780099771517 |
| Topics |
Geishas--Fiction American fiction--Biographical Japan--History--Fiction |
| Notes | This story is a rare and utterly engaging experience. It tells the extraordinary story of a geisha - summoning up a quarter century from 1929 to the post-war years of Japan's dramatic history, and opening a window into a half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. A young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. She tells her story many years later from the Waldorf Astoria in New York. Her memoirs conjure up the perfection and the ugliness of life behind rice-paper screens, where young girls learn the arts of geisha - dancing and singing, how to wind the kimono, how to walk and pour tea, and how to beguile the land's most powerful men. |
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