Memoirs of a Geisha

This is a seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, which 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 degredation. 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 and the details of an extraordinary way of life. It conjures up the perfection and the ugliness of life behind rice-paper screens, where young girls learn the arts of the geisha - dancing and singing, how to wind the kimonok, how to walk and pour tea, and how to beguile the most powerful men.>

Product details

• Authors: Arthur Golden, Golden Arthur
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.02.2000
• EAN: 9780099282853
• ISBN: 978-0-09-928285-3
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 110 mm x 180 mm x 26 mm
• Series: Vintage Paperbacks; Vintage Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Japan : Belletristik (Romane, Erzählungen), Kyoto, Historical romance, FICTION / Women, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Narrative theme: Sense of place