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Memoirs of a Geisha

Arthur Golden

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Epic tale of a geisha's life and survival.

"Memoirs of a Geisha" is not just a dive into the alluring world of geisha, it's a richly woven tapestry of 20th-century Japanese culture, human resilience, and personal evolution. With its intimate portrayal of a woman's fight for self-discovery against the backdrop of historical events, you'll find the narrative as beautiful as it is heart-wrenching. If you're intrigued by complex characters and vivid historical settings, this book could transport you to a world that's both elegantly detailed and emotionally gripping.

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ISBN: 9780099498186
Author: Arthur Golden
Publisher: TRAFALGAR SQUARE +
Date of Publication: 2006-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Historical Fiction, Romance
Related Topics: Classics, Historical Romance
Goodreads rating: 4.15
(rated by 1988165 readers)

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A seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, that 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 degradation. 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 geisha - dancing and singing, how to wind the kimono, how to walk and pour tea, and how to beguile the most powerful men.
 

Epic tale of a geisha's life and survival.

"Memoirs of a Geisha" is not just a dive into the alluring world of geisha, it's a richly woven tapestry of 20th-century Japanese culture, human resilience, and personal evolution. With its intimate portrayal of a woman's fight for self-discovery against the backdrop of historical events, you'll find the narrative as beautiful as it is heart-wrenching. If you're intrigued by complex characters and vivid historical settings, this book could transport you to a world that's both elegantly detailed and emotionally gripping.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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