Historical · Literary
Memoirs of a Geisha
A poor fisherman's daughter is sold to a geisha house in Kyoto in the 1930s. She trains in the arts and politics of the flower and willow world, hoping for the favour of one man.
- First published
- 1997
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- medium
- Length
- medium
- Format
- Standalone
Read this if you like lush, detailed historical fiction with a first-person voice and a slow, longing love story.
Skip this if you want an authentically Japanese viewpoint; it is a Western author's imagined account, which some readers and a legal case challenged.
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