Memoirs of a Geisha
by ARTHUR GOLDEN | Unknown | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0099771519 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0099771519 Global Overview for this book
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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.
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.
This book has been sitting on my bookshelf for a long time. I actually thought I had read it! Now I have!
This almost feels autobiographical, Sayuri really gets into your head and you empathize with her throughout her story. It is fascinating but tremendously sad to see how these women were trapped in this world. You succeeded or you perished, so in a small way Sayuri outwitted the system, I wonder if any really did.
This almost feels autobiographical, Sayuri really gets into your head and you empathize with her throughout her story. It is fascinating but tremendously sad to see how these women were trapped in this world. You succeeded or you perished, so in a small way Sayuri outwitted the system, I wonder if any really did.
