Memoirs of a Geisha
de Arthur Golden Vintage books, 1998, 434 p. 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. |
Golden Arthur.
Memoirs of a Geisha.
Vintage books, 1998, 434 p.
Titre : | Memoirs of a Geisha |
Auteurs : | Arthur Golden, Auteur |
Type de document : | texte imprimé |
Editeur : | Vintage books, 1998 |
ISBN/ISSN : | 978-0-09-977151-7 |
Format : | 434 p. |
Langues: | Anglais |
Index. décimale : | R(A) (Romans en anglais) |
Descripteurs : |
Motbis 20e siècle / Etats-Unis / littérature étrangère |
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. |
Nature du document : | fiction |
Genre : | roman |
Date de création : | 27/02/2014 |
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R(A) GOL | Romans en anglais | C.D.R. | 016721 | Disponible |