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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
Aug 01, 2011, Vintage Books, Brand: Vintage Books
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Memoirs Of A Geisha
2008, Random House Publishing Group
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July 1, 2006, Marshall Cavendish Editions
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2006, Gao bao guo ji ji tuan
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2006, Shanghai yi wen chu ban she
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Memoirs of a Geisha
October 10, 2006, Random House Large Print
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Memoirs of a Geisha: a novel
2005, Vintage Books, Vintage
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Memoirs of a geisha: a novel
2005, Random House Large Print
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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Memoirs of a Geisha
November 22, 2005, Vintage
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Memorie Di una Geisha / Memoires of a Geisha
February 2002, Distribooks
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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
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Memoirs of a Geisha
October 2001, Tandem Library
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Memorias de Una Geisha (Memoires of a Geisha)
November 2000, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
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Memorias de una Geisha / Memoirs of a Geisha
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Memoirs of a geisha: a novel
1999, Vintage Canada
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Memoirs of a Geisha
1999, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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June 4, 1998, Trafalgar Square
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