A first novel, so in some ways one must forgive the author for a little flagging in the middle. Having said that I do most earnestly recommend it. As an insight into the extraordinary culture, it is flawless.
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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 degradation. 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 geisha - dancing and singing, how to wind the kimono, how to walk and pour tea, and how to beguile the most powerful men.
This stunning epic was adapted into a film in 2005, directed by Rob Marshall. The rights to the film were bought by its producers just one month after the book was published in 2007.
Memoirs of a Geisha features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Sharing Diverse Voices, eBooks of the Month, Historical Fiction, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
Memoirs of a Geisha is available in Paperback, Ebook
Memoirs of a Geisha was written by Arthur Golden and published by Vintage an imprint of Random House
Memoirs of a Geisha has 434 pages
£9.89
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