Memoirs of a Geisha: The Literary Sensation and Runaway Bestseller

Description

Product ID:	9780099771517
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Title:	Memoirs of a Geisha
Subtitle:	The Literary Sensation and Runaway Bestseller
Authors:	Author: Arthur Golden
Page Count:	512
Subjects:	Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction, Historical fiction
Description:	Select Guide Rating 'An epic tale and a brutal evocation of a disappearing world' The TimesA young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. ''An epic tale and a brutal evocation of a disappearing world'' The Times A young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. Many years later she tells her story from a hotel in New York, opening a window into an extraordinary half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation and summoning up a quarter of a century of Japan''s dramatic history. ''Intimate and brutal, written in cool, lucid prose it is a novel whose psychological empathy and historical truths are outstanding'' Mail on Sunday
Imprint Name:	Vintage
Publisher Name:	Vintage Publishing
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	1998-06-04

Weight	358 g
Dimensions	130 × 198 × 34 mm