EAN: 9780099282853

ARTHUR GOLDEN - GEBRAUCHT MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA (...

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 degredation. 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 the geisha - dancing and singing  how to wind the kimonok  how to
walk and pour tea  and how to beguile the most powerful men.

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