Arthur Golden: Memoirs of a Geisha: The Literary Sensation and Runaway Bestseller [1998] paperback ZLGBT a freshman

a freshman

So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York

and the years of complacency

and the radical preacher John Ball

Arthur Golden: Memoirs of a Geisha: The Literary Sensation and Runaway Bestseller [1998] paperback ZLGBT a freshman'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