Memoirs of a Geisha
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Seductive, evocative, exquisite - intimate memoirs spanning half a century of Japanese history, revealing a closed world. This story is a rare and utterly engaging experience. It tells the extraordinary story of a geisha -summ...
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- ISBN13 9780099282853
- ISBN10 0099282852
- Tipo LIBRO
- Páginas 497
- Colección Vintage contemporaries #
- Año de Edición 2005
- Idioma Inglés
- Encuadernación Paperback
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Editorial VINTAGE BOOKS
Seductive, evocative, exquisite - intimate memoirs spanning half a century of Japanese history, revealing a closed world. This story is a rare and utterly engaging experience. It tells the extraordinary story of a geisha -summ...
España peninsular
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Seductive, evocative, exquisite - intimate memoirs spanning half a century of Japanese history, revealing a closed world.
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.