Memoirs of a Geisha
- ISBN-10
- 0099282852
- ISBN-13
- 9780099282853
- Series
- Memoirs of a Geisha
- Category
- Geishas
- Pages
- 498
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-02
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Author
- Arthur Golden
Description
This is a seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, which tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degredation. From a small fishing village in 1929, the tale moves to the glamorous and decadent heart of Kyoto in the 1930s, where 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; it exquisitely evokes another culture, a different time and the details of an extraordinary way of life. It conjures up the perfection and the ugliness of life behind rice-paper screens, where young girls learn the arts of the geisha - dancing and singing, how to wind the kimonok, how to walk and pour tea, and how to beguile the most powerful men.
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- 2008-12-02
- 450 pages
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