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Seductive, evocative, exquisite - intimate memoirs spanning half a century of Japanese history, revealing a closed world.
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.
- Binding Paperback
- Author/s Golden, Arthur
- ISBN13 9780099282853
- ISBN10 0099282852
- Pages 497
- Collection Vintage contemporaries #
- Published 2005
- Language English
Memoirs of a Geisha
- Author Arthur Golden
- Publisher VINTAGE
- ISBN 9780099282853
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