Memoirs of a Geisha - Vintage 21

Arthur Golden

Vintage

2011

768 páginas

1d 1h 36m

ISBN-13: 9780099563082

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 degradation. 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 geisha - dancing and singing, how to wind the kimono, how to walk and pour tea, and how to beguile the most powerful men.

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3 (Bom)

Expectativa estraga nossa experiência as vezes. Eu esperava uma história totalmente diferente desse livro. No final me pareceu que era só um livro de 500 páginas contando sobre briguinhas de mulheres que não se gostavam.