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Memoirs of a geisha
Tag	Description
001	$ 000013930441
020	$a9780099771517 (paperback)
020	$a0099771519 (paperback)
082	$a813.54
100	$aGolden, Arthur$d1957-,
250	$aFilm/TV tie-in ed.
260	$aLondon :$bVintage,$c1998.
300	$a434 pages ;$c20 cm.
520	$aA 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.
650	$aWomen
650	$aHistorical fiction.
650	$aManners and customs.
650	$aGeishas$zJapan$xHistory
651	$aJapon
651	$aJapan$xHistory$y20th century
651	$aJapan$xSocial life and customs