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Memoirs of a Geisha

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Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. It begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old girl with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house. We witness her transformation as she learns the rigorous arts of the geisha: dance and music; wearing kimono, elaborate makeup, and hair; pouring sake to reveal just a touch of inner wrist; competing with a jealous rival for men's solicitude and the money that goes with it.

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Call Number

F GOL m

Publisher

New York : Grove Press., 1997

Collation

13 x 20 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780679781585

Classification

F GOL m

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Subject(s)

Biographical Historical Fiction
9780679781585

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Pluit Putri Library

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GOLDEN, Arthur

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