MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
Language: English Publication details: London Vintage 2005/01/01Edition: 1Description: 497ISBN:- 9780099282853
- FÂ GOL/ME
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Lending | Ernakulam Public Library Fiction | Fiction | F GOL/ME (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | E193264 |
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 degredation. 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 the geisha - dancing and singing, how to wind the kimonok, how to walk and pour tea, and how to beguile the most powerful men.
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