Item #2332483 Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel. Arthur Golden.

Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel

New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 1999. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Item #2332483
ISBN: 9780679781585

First printing. Pages lightly toned, light edge wear.

434 pp. "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."

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