by Arthur Golden
A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. It begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old girl with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house. We witness her transformation as she learns the rigorous arts of the geisha: dance and music; wearing kimono, elaborate makeup, and hair; pouring sake to reveal just a touch of inner wrist; competing with a jealous rival for men's solicitude and the money that goes with it. 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. It is a unique and triumphant work of fiction—at once romantic, erotic, suspenseful—and completely unforgettable. 448 pages Publisher : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Date Published : November 9, 1999 20 other members have this in CatalogMaryMichelle08 owns this book shobe_franz owns this book demetria30 owns this book SomethingAbtKim owns this book diaciel owns this book JadeFox owns this book mawi_lopez owns this book Wanda has read this book lizzie23 has read this book petdep has read this book trishy has read this book roxy has read this book MadPotato has read this book summer has read this book dettenote has read this book Austin_Lee has read this book joanabanana has read this book jessicalexa wants this book allaroundnerd wants this book Dee wants this book Talk about thisRe: List of books made into movies
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