MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA

This story is a rare and utterly engaging experience. It tells the extraordinary story of a geisha -summoning up a quarter century f rom 1929 to the post-war years of Japan's dramatic history, and opening a window into a half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantme nt, exploitation and degradation.A young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. She tells her st ory many years later from the Waldorf Astoria in New York. Her memoirs conjure up the perfection and the ugliness of life behind ric e-paper ...[Read more]