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# Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel

**Brand:** arthur golden
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Memoirs of a Geisha

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## Customer Reviews

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    Excellent book
  

*by P***M on Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2022*

This book feels like a dictated biography . I knew nothing of this culture. Excellent

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    Just as Amazing on 2nd Read
  

*by K***E on Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2022*

It's been many years since I first read this book - when it debuted and then was made into a movie. Long enough that I had forgotten much about it. So it was like coming to read it with new eyes. With life experiences also came a new understanding and appreciation for all that Sayuri endured while keeping a very private dream alive . Artfully written,  this is still a wonderful story that all will enjoy.

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    Don't be fooled by the fine print
  

*by A***S on Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2007*

This book has been sitting on my "to be read" shelf for a long time, mainly because the teeny tiny little print that fills the pages to within half a centimeter of the edge filled me with trepidation at the apparently insurmountable task ahead.  Fortunately, I took the coward's way out and watched the movie first, and this gave me the boost I needed to get started.  Watching the movie first allowed me to put faces to the names, and to witness almost firsthand the intricacies of the rituals that are so intimately described in the book.Suffice to say that I was completely captivated from Chapter one, and was even reluctant to put it down at the end.  The novel tells the story of a young Japanese girl named Chiyo who is taken from her village in the 1930s and sent to Gion, to an okiya or geisha house.  Her sister Satsu is also taken, but lacking Chiyo's striking beauty, she is sent to a house of ill repute.  At first Chiyo dreams of finding Satsu and running away from Gion, but later realizes that this is never going to happen.The resident geisha at her okiya is a jealous and arrogant woman named Hatsumomo, who sabotages Chiyo's progress towards becoming a geisha herself, leaving Chiyo in the unenviable position of being a maid for the rest of her life.  Fortunately for Chiyo, a chance encounter with a wealthy businessman (known as the Chairman) opens new doors for her and this brief meeting changes the course of her life forever.Soon, Hatsumomo's rival, an extremely popular and successful geisha named Mameha decides to take Chiyo under her wing as her little sister, and after the usual haggling over fees and royalties is completed, Chiyo finally gets her chance to continue her geisha training. An intense and vicious rivalry develops between the geisha "tag teams" of Hatsumomo and her trainee Pumpkin, and Mameha and Chiyo, who then assumes the geisha name Sayuri.With the threefold purpose of defeating Hatsumomo, winning a wager, and paying off Sayuri's debts, Mameha orchestrates a bidding war between rich men for the apparently acceptable privilege of deflowering her young apprentice, the financial results of which set a new record in geisha history at the time.Just when things seem to be settling down nicely, two events shatter the relative calm, and Sayuri finds herself torn emotionally by the reappearance of the Chairman, and then later, mentally and physically by the outbreak of World War II.  After the War, she goes back to being a geisha, but has to choose between following her heart and following what seems to be the obvious path.The film and the novel are different in several sections, even down to the ending, but of course the book provides a lot of important background information that could not be captured in the movie version, even though I'm not sure of the historical accuracy.  I would strongly recommend them BOTH to anyone who is not familiar with the amazing gilded world of Geisha.Amanda Richards, April 14, 2007

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