Memoirs of a Geisha / Arthur Golden
Language: Αγγλικά.Publication: Λονδίνο, Αγγλία : Vintage Books, 1998Description: 497 p. ; 21x14 εκ..ISBN: 978-0-099-77151-7.Classification: ΑΓΓΛΙΚΑ GOLAbstract: Seductive, evocative, exquisite - intimate memoirs spanning half a century of Japanese history, revealing a closed world. 'An epic tale and a brutal evocation of a disappearing world' The Times 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 and summoning up a quarter of a century of Japan's dramatic history. 'Intimate and brutal, written in cool, lucid prose it is a novel whose psychological empathy and historical truths are outstanding' Mail on Sunday.Subject - Topical Name: Παιδική και εφηβική λογοτεχνία -- Αγγλικά| Cover image | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Seductive, evocative, exquisite - intimate memoirs spanning half a century of Japanese history, revealing a closed world.
'An epic tale and a brutal evocation of a disappearing world' The Times
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 and summoning up a quarter of a century of Japan's dramatic history.
'Intimate and brutal, written in cool, lucid prose it is a novel whose psychological empathy and historical truths are outstanding' Mail on Sunday
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