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This is a seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, which 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 degredation. 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 the geisha - dancing and singing, how to wind the kimonok, how to walk and pour tea, and how to beguile the most powerful men.
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Memories of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
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- Pubblicato
- 2005
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- Titolo
- Memories of a Geisha
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Arthur Golden
- Pubblicato
- 2005
- Serie
- Tag
- Narrativa, Prosa storica, Arte, Amore, Famiglia, Donne, Classici, Amicizia, Relazioni, Guerre, Seconda guerra mondiale, Letteratura Americana, Divertimento, Società, Giappone, Crescita, Adattato in un film, Asia, Cultura, Destino, Gelosia, Usanze e tradizioni, Triste, Cultura giapponese, Differenze sociali, Geisha
- Prima pubblicazione
- 1997
- Titolo originale
- Memoirs of a Geisha
- Valutazione
- 4,3 su 5
- Descrizione
- This is a seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, which 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 degredation. 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 the geisha - dancing and singing, how to wind the kimonok, how to walk and pour tea, and how to beguile the most powerful men.