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Memoirs of a Geisha:
In this literary tour de force, novelist Arthur Golden enters a remote and shimmeringly exotic world. For the protagonist of this peerlessly observant first novel is Sayuri, one of Japan's most celebrated geisha, a woman who is both performer and courtesan, slave and goddess.We follow Sayuri from her childhood in an impoverished fishing village, where in 1929, she is sold to a representative of a geisha house, who is drawn by the child's unusual blue-grey eyes. From there she is taken to Gion, the pleasure district of Kyoto. She is nine years old. In the years that follow, as she works to pay back the price of her purchase, Sayuri will be schooled in music and dance, learn to apply the geisha's elaborate makeup, wear elaborate kimono, and care for a coiffure so fragile that it requires a special pillow. She will also acquire a magnanimous tutor and a venomous rival. Surviving the intrigues of her trade and the upheavals of war, the resourceful Sayuri is a romantic heroine on the order of Jane Eyre and Scarlett O'Hara. And Memoirs of a Geisha is a triumphant work - suspenseful, and utterly persuasive.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Price: $28.95
Edition: Largeprint
Published by Random House Large Print on 2005-11-15.
Average rating (29 reviews):
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 Rating: 10.0 |
Recent reviews:
Reviewed by anonymous on 2006-05-25: Memoirs of a Geisha is an amazing Bildungsroman (coming-of-age) literature. When little Chiyo and her sister Satsu are faced with crisis in their house in their little fishing village of Yoroido, they both end up in different okiyas. While Chiyo (read more ...)
Rating: 10.0
Reviewed by anonymous on 2006-04-28: Women in japan aren't just considered woman if they are pretty they are considered business opportunities. for one little girl this was just the case. with stunning blue eyes she wasn't just an ordinary japanese girl her life was about to (read more ...)
Rating: 10.0
Reviewed by anonymous on 2006-04-27: I loved this book. It was a very easy read. I learned so much about the history of a geisha. I never knew most of the things. I also loved how it ended. I totally didn't expect it. I would (read more ...)
Rating: 10.0
Reviewed by anonymous on 2006-04-25: I wasn't sure I would like this book, so I read the two books I already had before starting this one, what a mistake! This is an absolutley superb book! I couldn't put it down. I don't think I have read (read more ...)
Rating: 10.0
Reviewed by anonymous on 2006-04-22: What a wondeful read! I loved this book SO much and have passed it to many. I may re-read it soon because I just bought the movie and I need to get that out of my mind. Not like the book (read more ...)
Rating: 10.0
