Memoirs of A Geisha

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.

Product details

• Authors: Arthur Golden
• Publisher: Random House Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9781784871406
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-140-6
• Dimensions: 115 mm x 180 mm x 30 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature