Memoirs of a Geisha (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Arthur Golden (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2005

  $6.06

• Used

  Paperback
  2005

  $4.24

• Used

  Hardcover
  1999

  $6.31

• New

  Paperback
  1998

  $11.93

  This story is a rare and utterly engaging experience. 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. A young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. She tells her story many years later from the Waldorf Astoria in New York. 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.