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RSN: 000013930441 ISBN: 9780099771517 (paperback) 0099771519 (paperback) Call Number: 813.54 Dates: Golden, Arthur1957-, Edition: Film/TV tie-in ed. Name of Publisher: London :Vintage,1998. Attachments: 434 pages ;20 cm. Summary: A seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, that tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. From a small fishing village in 1929, the tale moves to the glamorous and decadent heart of Kyoto in the 1930s, where 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; it exquisitely evokes another culture, a different time and the details of an extraordinary way of life. It conjures 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 most powerful men. Subject: Women Historical fiction. Manners and customs. Geishas--Japan--History Subject: Japon Japan--History--20th century Japan--Social life and customs ------------------------------ 920458799 Available at Grenfell Adult Fiction F GOL -----------------------------------------------