Memoirs of a Geisha
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486 pages
A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. It 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
ISBN: 9780375406782
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Alice Little
Activism & Nonprofits"The author uses language that is very, very rich and colorful. You can really immerse yourself into that world and kind of get a sense of what things were like, at that time."
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