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Memoirs of a Geisha

Memoirs of a Geisha

by Arthur Golden
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About this book

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.

Book Details

ISBN13 9780099771517
ISBN10 0099771519
Series/Work OL1856675W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Vintage
Language ENG
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At January 30, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

American fiction Ficción Fiction Fictional Works Publication Type Fiction, general Fiction, historical Fiction, historical, general Geishas Histoire Historia Historical fiction Historical Fiction History Japan Japan, fiction Korean language materials Large type books Literature Manners and customs Mœurs et coutumes

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