Memoirs of a Geisha (Paperback) Arthur Golden (author)
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Description ‘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 Publisher: Vintage Publishing ISBN: 9780099771517 Number of pages: 512 Weight: 352 g Dimensions: 197 x 128 x 30 mm ‘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 Publisher: Vintage Publishing ISBN: 9780099771517 Number of pages: 512 Weight: 352 g Dimensions: 197 x 128 x 30 mm
