by Arthur Golden · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099771517
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«Memoirs of a Geisha» is Arthur Golden's historical novel, published by Vintage in paperback (448 pages, in English).
It tells the story of a girl from a fishing village who, in 1929, is sold as a servant and apprentice to a geisha house in Kyoto. As an adult, she recalls her life between interwar and postwar Japan, showing the learning of dance, music and the kimono, and a hidden world of seduction, secrets, charm and exploitation.
The work was originally published in English in 1997; this Vintage paperback edition is from June 1998.
For readers of historical fiction and narrative set in Japan; also a common title in book clubs.
Arthur Sulzberger Golden is an American writer. He is the author of the bestselling novel Memoirs of a Geisha (1997).
