It is a unique and triumphant work of fiction-at once romantic, erotic, suspenseful-and completely unforgettable. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden captures this fascinating and mysterious world in a story that contrasts the rich tradition of the geishas and the changes brought about by the World War II in Kyoto. 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. This was the papers most productive time. His grandfather was the publisher from 1935 till 1961. The Ochs - Sulzbergers are the owner of the New York Times. He is a member of the Ochs - Sulzberger family. 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. Arthur Golden, the author of Memoirs of a Geisha was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1956. 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. 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. These items are dispatched from and sold by different sellers.
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
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.
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