Memoirs of a Geisha
Author: Golden, Arthur
ISBN: 9780099771517
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 07 Aug 1998
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback / softback
Seductive, evocative, exquisite - intimate memoirs spanning half a century of Japanese history, revealing a closed world.
'An epic tale and a brutal evocation of a disappearing world' The Times
A young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. Many years later she tells her story from a hotel in New York, opening a window into an extraordinary half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation and summoning up a quarter of a century of Japan's dramatic history.
'Intimate and brutal, written in cool, lucid prose it is a novel whose psychological empathy and historical truths are outstanding' Mail on Sunday
ISBN: 9780099771517
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 07 Aug 1998
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback / softback
Seductive, evocative, exquisite - intimate memoirs spanning half a century of Japanese history, revealing a closed world.
'An epic tale and a brutal evocation of a disappearing world' The Times
A young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. Many years later she tells her story from a hotel in New York, opening a window into an extraordinary half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation and summoning up a quarter of a century of Japan's dramatic history.
'Intimate and brutal, written in cool, lucid prose it is a novel whose psychological empathy and historical truths are outstanding' Mail on Sunday
