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Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden
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Description for Memoirs of a Geisha
paperback. Summoning up more than 20 years of Japan's most dramatic history, the geisha's story uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. It moves from a small fishing village in 1929 to the glamorous and decadent Kyoto of the 30s and on to postwar New York. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 31. Weight in Grams: 356. Well read, but remains good
'An epic tale and a brutal evocation of a disappearing world' The Times
A young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. Many years later she tells her story from a hotel in New York, opening a window into an extraordinary half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation and summoning up a quarter of a century of Japan's dramatic history.
'Intimate and brutal, written in cool, lucid prose it is a novel whose psychological empathy and historical truths are outstanding' Mail on Sunday
Product Details
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099771517
SKU
KST0009345
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
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99-1
About Arthur Golden
Arthur Golden was born and brought up in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He is a 1978 graduate of Harvard College with a degree in art history, specialising in Japanese art. In 1980 he earned an MA in Japanese history from Columbia University where he also learned Mandarin Chinese. After a summer at Beijing University, he went to work at a magazing in Tokyo. In 1988 he recieved an MA in English from Boston University. He has lived and worked in Japan, and since that time has been teaching writing and literature in the Boston area. He now lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with his wife and children
Reviews for Memoirs of a Geisha
An epic tale and a beautiful evocation of a rapidly vanishing world
The Times
The sort of novel that novel-lovers yearn for, which is to say, so convincing that while reading it you become transported to another time, another place, and feel you are listening and seeing with someone else's ears and eyes
Margaret Forster Endlessly fascinating...a narrative that is both gripping and beautifully paced...a wonderful read
Observer
Sayuri's memoirs reveal Golden to have great gifts of imaginative empathy...fascinating
Independent
This is one of those rare novels that evokes a vanished world with absolute conviction and in every detail... This book is exceptional
Daily Mail
The Times
The sort of novel that novel-lovers yearn for, which is to say, so convincing that while reading it you become transported to another time, another place, and feel you are listening and seeing with someone else's ears and eyes
Margaret Forster Endlessly fascinating...a narrative that is both gripping and beautifully paced...a wonderful read
Observer
Sayuri's memoirs reveal Golden to have great gifts of imaginative empathy...fascinating
Independent
This is one of those rare novels that evokes a vanished world with absolute conviction and in every detail... This book is exceptional
Daily Mail