Try Audible 3 months free: thousands of audiobooks availableĭespite the fact that the book Memoirs of a Geisha it is narrated as if it were a diary, the truth is that there are different characters to pay attention to.
The problem is that, when the mother falls ill, the father cannot take care of the girls, and ends up selling them to a local businessman. He lives with his family in Yoroido and has a sister. In the novel the author introduces us to Chiyo, a girl whose beauty is in her eyes. Thus, he concocted a fictional story based on situations that could well be real, setting it in Kyoto before the outbreak of World War II. And is that the author, Arthur Golden, researched for more than five years interviewing different geishas, some of whom were given more documentation than others. In it real events are narrated, but at the same time fictitious. The first thing you should know about the book Memoirs of a Geisha is that it is a historical novel. What is the book of Memoirs of a Geisha about
5 The film adaptation of Memoirs of a Geisha.2 What are the characters in Memoirs of a Geisha.1 What is the book of Memoirs of a Geisha about.It is a unique and triumphant work of fiction-at once romantic, erotic, suspenseful-and completely unforgettable. 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. 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. 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.
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. Please see Disclosures for more information. That means if you click and make a purchase, I may earn a small commission.
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