![]() ![]() The bestselling novel was a long time in the making Golden spent. Please note this copy has light creases on the spine and some light scuffs on the edges of the covers. Memoirs of a Geisha, published in 1997, is Arthur Goldens debut novel. ![]() 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. ![]() She tells her story many years later from the Waldorf Astoria in New York. A young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. 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. It tells the extraordinary tale of a geisha - summoning up a quarter century, from 1929 to the. This story is a rare and utterly engaging experience. This story is a rare and utterly engaging experience. ![]()
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