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  • Sad and dark story. By the time I finished the book I had come to the conclusion that Geishas are just exploited girls..call whatever you want but in the end it is just pitiful how the whole system work to exploit women..

    

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• ― Annam_Mathews said on Jul 5, 2006 about the Hardcover edition| Add your feedback

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  • Learning so much about the cultural view of japanese people and their geishas was a real treat. The movie doesn't compare.

    

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• ― VeraHuff said on Oct 24, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  • Beautifully written

  • The writing is so visual in this book it is very easy to "see" every detail. I read this while in Singapore on business so I really got into the asian themes.

    

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• ― Lmarker said on Apr 8, 2009 about the Hardcover edition| Add your feedback

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  • 2nd re-read and enjoyed it just as much as the first time!

    

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• ― Lil Bit said on Feb 1, 2009 about the Mass Market Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • I went into this book expecting to be really bored with it but was pleasantly surprised. I wasn't crazy about the writing style but I really enjoyed learning more about Japan during that time period and the life of a geisha.

    

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• ― Deanna Kyre said on Jan 19, 2009 about the Mass Market Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • Very Nicely Written

  • The movie was ok, it was the reason I picked up this book in the first place. It's a pretty tender story of a young girl who has to find her own way in life while taking on a position in society that forbids doing that. The job of a geisha is interesting in itself--highly paid and envied escort! Got ... Continue

    The movie was ok, it was the reason I picked up this book in the first place. It's a pretty tender story of a young girl who has to find her own way in life while taking on a position in society that forbids doing that. The job of a geisha is interesting in itself--highly paid and envied escort! Gotta love a historical romance, especially one set in a country as exotic as Japan. There is a lot of drama, too.

    

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• ― Sssdawna said on Jan 2, 2009 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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 a renowned geisha house. We witness her transformation as she learns the rigorous arts of the geisha: dance and music; wearing kimono, elaborate makeup, and hair; pouring sake to reveal just a touch of inner wrist; competing with a jealous rival for men's solicitude and the money that goes with it.
In Memoirs of a Geisha, 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. [예스24 제공]

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