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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.
ISBN | 9780099771517 |
Categories | Asian Literature, Bestseller, BUY8, BX, Fiction, X-Deals |
Author(s) | Arthur Golden |
Publisher | Vintage Classics |
Pages | 435 |
Format | Paperback |
Dimensions | 13.0cm x 3.0cm x 19.8cm |
Weight | 0.37 kg |
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