Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Golden, Arthur |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Date: | 1/10/1999 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells withseamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan’smost celebrated geisha.
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice atonce haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her lifeas a beginsin a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-oldgirl with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slaveryto a renowned geisha witness hertransformation as she learns the rigorousarts of the geisha: dance and music; wearing kimono, elaborate makeup, and hair;pouring sake to reveal just a touch of inner wrist; competing with a jealous rivalfor men’s solicitude and the money that goes with it.
In
Memoirs of a Geisha,we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl’s virginity is auctionedto the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men;and where love is scorned as is aunique and triumphant work of fiction—atonce romantic, erotic, suspenseful—and completely unforgettable.
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