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Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden
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Description for Memoirs of a Geisha
Paperback.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Random House
Condition
New
Number of pages
464
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099497028
SKU
9780091887193
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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 where he also learned Mandarin Chinese. In 1988 he received an MA in English from Boston. He has lived and worked ... Read more
Reviews for Memoirs of a Geisha
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'Intimate and brutal, written in cool, lucid prose it is a novel whose psychological empathy and historical truths are outstanding' - Mail on Sunday
'Endless and fascinating - a narrative that is both gripping and beautifully paced - a wonderful read' - Observer
'This is a high-wire act. Rarely has a world so closed and foreign been ... Read more
'Intimate and brutal, written in cool, lucid prose it is a novel whose psychological empathy and historical truths are outstanding' - Mail on Sunday
'Endless and fascinating - a narrative that is both gripping and beautifully paced - a wonderful read' - Observer
'This is a high-wire act. Rarely has a world so closed and foreign been ... Read more