An edition of Memoirs of a Geisha (1997)

Memoirs of a Geisha

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  • 3.97 ·
  • 69 Ratings
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  • 86 Have read

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An edition of Memoirs of a Geisha (1997)

Memoirs of a Geisha

  • 3.97 ·
  • 69 Ratings
  • 204 Want to read
  • 7 Currently reading
  • 86 Have read

A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. It begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old girl with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house. We witness her transformation as she learns the rigorous arts of the geisha: dance and music; wearing kimono, elaborate makeup, and hair; pouring sake to reveal just a touch of inner wrist; competing with a jealous rival for men's solicitude and the money that goes with it. 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. It is a unique and triumphant work of fiction--at once romantic, erotic, suspenseful--and completely unforgettable.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Memoirs of a Geisha
November 2, 2005, Vintage Books USA
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Yi ge yi ji no hui yi: Memoirs of a geisha
2001, Xi dai shu ban gu fen you xian gong si
in Chinese - Di 1 ban
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Khaterate yek gisha
2001, Kitabkhana Mili Iran
in Persian
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Memoirs of a geisha
2000, Chatto & Windus
in English
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Memoirs of a geisha: a novel
1999, Vintage Books
in English - Vintage contemporaries ed.
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Memoirs of a geisha
1998, G.K. Hall
in English
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Memoirs of a geisha: a novel
1997, Alfred A. Knopf
in English - 1st ed.

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OL31851437M
ISBN 13
9781400096893

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