Memoirs of a Geisha: The Literary Sensation and Runaway Bestseller

'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

• | Author: Arthur Golden
• | Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• | Publication Date: Jun 04, 1998
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780099771517
• | ISBN-10: 0099771519