Memoirs of a Geisha

A Seductive and Evocative Epic on an Intimate Scale, That Tells the Extraordinary Story of a Geisha Girl. Summoning Up More Than Twenty Years of Japan's Most Dramatic History, It Uncovers a Hidden World of Eroticism and Enchantment, Exploitation and Degradation. From a Small Fishing Village in 1929, the Tale Moves to the Glamorous and Decadent Heart of Kyoto in the 1930S, Where 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; It Exquisitely Evokes Another Culture, a Different Time and the Details of an Extraordinary Way of Life. It Conjures 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 Most Powerful Men.