num_pages: 434
description: This story is a rare and utterly engaging experience. It tells the extraordinary story of a geisha - summoning up a quarter century from 1929 to the post-war years of Japan's dramatic history, and opening a window into a half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. 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. Her memoirs conjure 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 land's most powerful men.
language: English
title: Memoirs of a Geisha
titlecomplete: Memoirs of a Geisha
characters: Sayuri Nitta, Mameha, Ken Iwamura, Pumpkin, Mr. Bekku, Toshikazu Nobu, Hatsumono, Ichiro Tanaka, Dr. Crab
genres: Asia, Historical, Historical Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Classics, Japan, Adult, Romance, Fiction
ratings_count: 1957508
places: Japan, Kyoto
publisher: Vintage