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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. Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Rarely has a world so closed and foreign been evoked with such natural assurance." -The New Yorkerįrom the Trade Paperback edition. "A story with the social vibrancy and narrative sweep of a much-loved 19th century bildungsroman. a novel that refuses to stay shut." -Newsweek You are seduced completely." -Washington Post Book World And Memoirs of a Geisha is a triumphant work - suspenseful, and utterly persuasive.Įditorial Reviews : "Astonishing. Surviving the intrigues of her trade and the upheavals of war, the resourceful Sayuri is a romantic heroine on the order of Jane Eyre and Scarlett O'Hara. She will also acquire a magnanimous tutor and a venomous rival. In the years that follow, as she works to pay back the price of her purchase, Sayuri will be schooled in music and dance, learn to apply the geisha's elaborate makeup, wear elaborate kimono, and care for a coiffure so fragile that it requires a special pillow. From there she is taken to Gion, the pleasure district of Kyoto. We follow Sayuri from her childhood in an impoverished fishing village, where in 1929, she is sold to a representative of a geisha house, who is drawn by the child's unusual blue-grey eyes. For the protagonist of this peerlessly observant first novel is Sayuri, one of Japan's most celebrated geisha, a woman who is both performer and courtesan, slave and goddess. About Book : In this literary tour de force, novelist Arthur Golden enters a remote and shimmeringly exotic world.