It conjures up the cruelty and the heartbreak, the perfection and the ugliness of life behind the rice-paper screens, where young girls learn the arts of the geisha - dancing and singing, how to wind the kimono and those elaborate hairstyles, how to walk and pour tea, and how to beguile the most powerful men. She endures brutal treatment and eventually must train to be a geisha and entertain the highest levels of Japanese elite. This novel follows a young girl named Chiyo, who is sold to a geisha house as a child. I loved Memoirs of a Geisha, which I read as an audiobook. However, a real geisha, named Mineko Iwasaki, sued the author of the book because of defamation. Some books echo in your mind long after you finish reading them. She tells her own story many years later from the Waldorf Astoria in New York and what is so utterly extraordinary about this novel is the way it exquisitely and unforgettably evokes another culture, a different time and the details of an extraordinary way of life. Memoirs of geisha, ElvenNicky No, it is not based on a true story. Then war breaks out and she has to escape and transform herself once again. Genres Nonfiction Japan Biography Memoir History Asia Autobiography.more.

Told with great wisdom and sensitivity, it is a true story of beauty and heroism, and of a time and culture rarely revealed to the Western world.

Transformed by one man's act of kindness, she fights her way through hardship and jealousies to become successful as Sayuri the geisha girl. Geisha, a Life is the first of its kind, as it delicately unfolds the fabric of a geisha's development. 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 into a kind of slavery, as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. This is a seductive and stunningly evocative epic on an intimate scale, which tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl.

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