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'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

Memoirs of a Geisha: The Literary Sensation and Runaway Bestseller

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'An epic tale and a brutal evocation of a disappearing world' The TimesA young peasant girl is sold as servant... Read more

    Publisher: Vintage Publishing
    Publication Date: 04/06/1998
    ISBN13: 9780099771517, 978-0099771517
    ISBN10: 0099771519

    Number of Pages: 512

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

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    '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

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