Memoirs of a Geisha

• Auteur : Arthur Golden
• • Editeur : Vintage books 1998
  • ISBN/ISSN : 978-0-09-977151-7
  • Format : 434 p.
  • Langues : Anglais
• • Nature du document : fiction Genre : roman
  • Résumé :

    This story is a rare and utterly engaging experience. It tells the extraordinary story of a geisha -summoning up a quarter century from 1929 to the post-war years of Japan's dramatic history, and opening a window into a half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation.

    A young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. She tells her story many years later from the Waldorf Astoria in New York. Her memoirs conjure up the perfection and the ugliness of life behind rice-paper screens, where young girls learn the arts of geisha - dancing and singing, how to wind the kimono, how to walk and pour tea, and how to beguile the land's most powerful men.

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    Motbis

    20e siècle / Etats-Unis / littérature étrangère
  • Index. décimale : R(A) (Romans en anglais)