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MARC 21
Memoirs of a geisha
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$ 000013930441
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$a9780099771517 (paperback)
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$a0099771519 (paperback)
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$a813.54
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$aGolden, Arthur$d1957-,
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$aFilm/TV tie-in ed.
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$aLondon :$bVintage,$c1998.
300
$a434 pages ;$c20 cm.
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$aA seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, that tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. From a small fishing village in 1929, the tale moves to the glamorous and decadent heart of Kyoto in the 1930s, where a young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. She tells her story many years later from the Waldorf Astoria in New York; it exquisitely evokes another culture, a different time and the details of an extraordinary way of life. It conjures up the perfection and the ugliness of life behind rice-paper screens, where young girls learn the arts of geisha - dancing and singing, how to wind the kimono, how to walk and pour tea, and how to beguile the most powerful men.
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$aWomen
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$aHistorical fiction.
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$aManners and customs.
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$aGeishas$zJapan$xHistory
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$aJapon
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$aJapan$xHistory$y20th century
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$aJapan$xSocial life and customs