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"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. This story is a rare and utterly engaging experience, summoning up a quarter century of Japan's dramatic history, and opening a window into a half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation."
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Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
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- Released
- 2016
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- Title
- Memoirs of a Geisha
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Arthur Golden
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Released
- 2016
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 1784871400
- ISBN13
- 9781784871406
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Art, Love, Family, Women, Classics, Friendship, Relationships, Wars, American Literature, World War II, Fun, Society, Japan, Adapted for Film, Coming Of Age, Asia, Culture, Fate, Jealousy, Customs and Traditions, Sad, Japanese Culture, Social Differences, Geisha
- First published
- 1997
- Original title
- Memoirs of a Geisha
- Rating
- 4.3 out of 5
- Description
- "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. This story is a rare and utterly engaging experience, summoning up a quarter century of Japan's dramatic history, and opening a window into a half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation."