1998, ISBN: 9780099771517

Vintage. Fair. Paperback. 1998. 40 pages. cover wear and delaminating, tanned pages<br><br><p>< strong>MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA</strong><br /><br />… More...

Vintage. Fair. Paperback. 1998. 40 pages. cover wear and delaminating, tanned pages<br><br><p>< strong>MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA</strong><br /><br />By Arthur Golden<b r /><br />Vintage, UK, 1998<br />ISBN 0099771519<br />midsize pb, 440pp<br /><br />GOOD: minor wear, tanned pages<br /><br />A sedu ctive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, that tells the ext raordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden worl d of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. Fro m a small fishing village in 1929, the tale moves to the glamorou s and decadent heart of Kyoto in the 1930s, where a young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha hous e. She tells her story many years later from the Waldorf Astoria in New York; it exquisitely evokes another culture, a different t ime and the details of an extraordinary way of life. It conjures up the perfection and the ugliness of life behind rice-paper scre ens, where young girls learn the arts of geisha - dancing and sin ging, how to wind the kimono, how to walk and pour tea, and how t o beguile the most powerful men.</p> ., Vintage, 1998, 2<

1998, ISBN: 9780099771517

London: Vintage. Very Good-. 1998. Reprint; Twenty-Fourth Printing. Paperback. Light reading and cover corner creases, light shelf wear with slight bump to top of lightly sunned spine, p… More...

London: Vintage. Very Good-. 1998. Reprint; Twenty-Fourth Printing. Paperback. Light reading and cover corner creases, light shelf wear with slight bump to top of lightly sunned spine, paper lightly edge toned. ; Twenty-fourth printing of Vintage paperback edition, 1998. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. Cover photo by Jodi Cobb. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 448 pages; In 1929, Sayuri, a young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. Many years later she tells her story from a hotel in New York, opening a window into an extraordinary half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. A novel summoning up a quarter of a century of Japan's dramatic history, from the resurgence of right-wing patriotism in the 1930s, a world war, and the post war years where Japan had to find a new identity. ., Vintage, 1998, 3<

1998, ISBN: 0099771519

[EAN: 9780099771517], Near Fine, [SC: 12.0], [PU: VINTAGE], LETTRES), RO60062336: 1998. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos plié, Intérieur frais. 434 pages. Premier plat il… More...

[EAN: 9780099771517], Near Fine, [SC: 12.0], [PU: VINTAGE], LETTRES), RO60062336: 1998. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos plié, Intérieur frais. 434 pages. Premier plat illustré en couleurs par Jodi Cobb. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne, Books<