# Memoirs of a Geisha

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- Book: [Memoirs of a Geisha](https://www.bookquiver.com/arthur-golden/memoirs-of-a-geisha) ([Memoirs of a Geisha.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/arthur-golden/memoirs-of-a-geisha.md))
- Authors: [Arthur Golden](https://www.bookquiver.com/arthur-golden)
- Publisher: Vintage Digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0701-966-6
- Published: 2008-12-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

This is a seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, which 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.