Memoirs of a Geisha
Author(s): ARTHUR GOLDEN
SECONDHAND BOOKS | Literary Fiction
'An epic tale and a brutal evocation of a disappearing world' The Times A young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. Many years later she tells her story from a hotel in New York, opening a window into an extraordinary half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation and summoning up a quarter of a century of Japan's dramatic history. 'Intimate and brutal, written in cool, lucid prose it is a novel whose psychological empathy and historical truths are outstanding' Mail on Sunday
Chatto and Windus, 1997. A trade paperback copy in very good condition.
Product Information
General Fields
- :
- : Penguin Random House
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 0.584
- : November 1997
- : {"length"=>["23"], "width"=>["15"], "units"=>["Centimeters"]}
- : books
Special Fields
- : 448
- : 813.54
- : softcover
- : ARTHUR GOLDEN