Memoirs of a Geisha

Seductive, evocative, exquisite - intimate memoirs spanning half a century of Japanese history, revealing a closed world.

Informationen zum Autor Arthur Golden was born and brought up in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He is a 1978 graduate of Harvard College with a degree in art history, specialising in Japanese art. In 1980 he earned an MA in Japanese history from Columbia University where he also learned Mandarin Chinese. After a summer at Beijing University, he went to work at a magazing in Tokyo. In 1988 he recieved an MA in English from Boston University. He has lived and worked in Japan, and since that time has been teaching writing and literature in the Boston area. He now lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with his wife and children Klappentext The seductive and extraordinary tale of a geisha girl, told from the Waldorf Astoria in New York as she remembers her experiences in the glamorous and decadent heart of Kyoto in the 1930s. "Exceptional and erotic" "Literary Review". "Intimate and brutal, written in cool, lucid prose, it is a novel whose pyschological empathy and historical truths are outstanding" "Mail On Sunday". Zusammenfassung 'An epic tale and a brutal evocation of a disappearing world' The TimesA young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house.

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The seductive and extraordinary tale of a geisha girl, told from the Waldorf Astoria in New York as she remembers her experiences in the glamorous and decadent heart of Kyoto in the 1930s. "Exceptional and erotic" "Literary Review". "Intimate and brutal, written in cool, lucid prose, it is a novel whose pyschological empathy and historical truths are outstanding" "Mail On Sunday".

Zusammenfassung
'An epic tale and a brutal evocation of a disappearing world' The TimesA young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house.