Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel
In "Memoirs of a Geisha," we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love is scorned as illusion. Sayuri's story begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old with unusual blue-gray e...show more
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Probably one of my favorite books of all time. For whatever reason I felt very touched by this story.
Enthralling. I found myself sitting and listening instead of knitting or something else like I usually do.
In the historical fiction novel Memoirs of a Geisha, the debut of Arthur Golden, the narrator is one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. She's fictional of course, but her confessions about her life, before, during and after World War II, are presented with (almost) seamless authenticity. We can't say the reality depicted it's thoroughly accurate, since the author is not Japanese, but it shows that Golden, an american, has done his research and is...read more
Read this because it’s one of my favorite movies! I actually liked the movie a little better, but I liked that I got to get more details of the story in the book.
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