- Publishing house :
- VINTAGE BOOKS
- Year of edition:
- 2015
- ISBN:
- 978-0-09-977151-7
- Pages :
- 434
- Binding :
- Otros
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MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
GOLDEN, ARTHUR
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This story is a rare and utterly engaging experience. It tells the extraordinary story of a geisha -summoning up a quarter century from 1929 to the post-war years of Japan's dramatic history, and opening a window into a half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation.
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. Her memoirs conjure up the perfection and the ugliness of life behind rice-paper screens, where young girls learn the arts of geisha - dancing and singing, how to wind the kimono, how to walk and pour tea, and how to beguile the land's most powerful men.
