Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - 2001
By: Arthur Golden
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 17 hrs and 54 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 06-12-01
Categories: Literature & Fiction, Japanese, Family
Language: English
Publisher: Random House Audio
Format: mp3 64/48 stereo
Nitta Sayuri tells us in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate of her life as a geisha. Her story begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old girl with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house. We witness her transformation as we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love is scorned as illusion.
It is a unique and triumphant work of fiction - at once romantic, erotic, suspenseful - and completely unforgettable.
©1997 Arthur Golden; Copyright ©1998 by Random House, Inc.
Critic Reviews
"Astonishing...Breathtaking...You are seduced completely." (Washington Post Book World)
"...a bravura performance, a first novel that provides a vivid view into a largely lost and secret world." (The Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review)
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