Memoirs of a Geisha - Brossura

Golden, Arthur

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0099490757 ISBN 13: 9780099490753

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2099

Riassunto

A seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, that tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. 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 as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. She tells her story many years later from the Waldorf Astoria in New York; it exquisitely evokes another culture, a different time and the details of an extraordinary way of life. It conjures 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 most powerful men.

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Book by Arthur Golden

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2099
• ISBN 10: 0099490757
• ISBN 13: 9780099490753
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 448