Memoirs of a Geisha

<p><b>'An epic tale and a brutal evocation of a disappearing world' <i>The Times</i></b><br><br>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.<br><br><b>'Intimate and brutal, written in cool, lucid prose it is a novel whose psychological empathy and historical truths are outstanding'<i> Mail on Sunday</i></b></p> <p><b>'An epic tale and a brutal evocation of a disappearing world' <i>The Times</i></b><br><br>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.<br><br><b>'Intimate and brutal, written in cool, lucid prose it is a novel whose psychological empathy and historical truths are outstanding'<i> Mail on Sunday</i></b></p>