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Arthur Golden |
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1998 ABBY |
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Schwartz, John Burnham, New Yorker: "There is a particular pleasure to be found in reading a novel that is sui generis and yet is imbued with subtle shadings of its literary predecessors: this is a high-wire act....Rarely has a world so closed and foreign been evoked with such natural assurance....If Golden had done no more than elucidate these details in fine prose, 'Memoirs of a Geisha' would still be of enormous interest....But in the unforgettable Sayuri...Golden has found the heart and matter of a truth that lies beyond detail." |
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Format: Hardcover, 434
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc (September 01, 1997)
Measurements: 10"(h) x 6.75"(w) x 1.75"(d), 1.8 lbs.
ISBN: 9780375400117 |
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Suppose that you and I were sitting in a quiet room overlooking a garden, chatting and sipping at our cups of green tea while we talked about something that had happened a long while ago, and I said to you, "That afternoon when I met so-and-so...was the very best afternoon of my life, and also the very worst afternoon." |
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The "memoirs" of one of Japan's most celebrated geishas describes how, as a little girl in 1929, she is sold into slavery; her efforts to learn the arts of the geisha; the impact of World War II; and her struggle to reinvent herself to win the man she loves. |
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