PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9781784871406
- Categories Asian Literature, BX, BXOS, extraordinary, F LIT, Fiction
- Author(s) Arthur Golden
- Publisher Vintage Classics
- Pages 512
- Format Paperback
- Dimensions 11.4cm x 3.1cm x 17.8cm
- Weight 0.285 kg
product description
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. This story is a rare and utterly engaging experience, summoning up a quarter century of Japan's dramatic history, and opening a window into a half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation.