Confessions of a Kamikaze Geisha

<p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(42 42 42 1)>Set in Japan and China 1939-1946 </span><em style=color: rgba(42 42 42 1)>Confessions of a Kamikaze Geisha</em><span style=color: rgba(42 42 42 1)> is a satire of jingoistic nationalism an allegory of one nation's tragic love affair with militarism an absurd retelling of the Greater East Asia War from the Japanese point of view. </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(42 42 42 1)>When the narrator Suzukaze makes her debut as an apprentice geisha in 1939 at the age of 15 it is expected that her maidenhood will be sold to a well-off patron for a substantial sum. On her very first night of entertainment however she falls madly in love with a young lieutenant upsetting the plans for her future and putting her on the perilous road that will lead her to one day become the Kamikaze Geisha.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(42 42 42 1)>From the opening:</span></p><p><br></p><p><em>You must remember my dear Suzu that all of history is a myth a fable simply the telling of a tale and what is passed down always depends</em></p><p><em> on who is doing the telling.</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p>That's what the Colonel wrote in one of his letters. It was during the war and he was at the front in Burma. I didn't give his words much thought at the time. That's just the way the Colonel was. He was a very intelligent man and he had his own peculiar way of doing and saying things. As I sit down to write this memoir however- this history of my life- the Colonel's words have come back to me. Where to start? And how much to tell you the reader? And how to tell you? And what to say about those whose lives crossed with my own?</p>