Arthur Golden: Memoirs of a Geisha

An epic tale and a brutal evocation of a disappearing world.
ISBN: 9780099771517
Author: Arthur Golden
Page: 428
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 1998
Format: Book
Publisher: VINTAGE BOOKS
Language: English

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Price: 4 290 Ft

Stock: 1-10 copies

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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.

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