This story is a rare and utterly engaging experience. It tells the extraordinary story of a geisha -summoning up a quarter century from 1929 to the post-war years of Japan's dramatic history, and opening a window into a half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation.
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. Her memoirs conjure 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 land's most powerful men.
Arthur Golden nació en Chattanooga (Tennessee). Tras estudiar en Harvard, donde se especializó en Arte Japonés, pasó un tiempo en China y Japón. Cuando regresó a los Estados Unidos, continuó sus estudios en la Universidad de Boston. Vive en Brookline (Massachussets) con su esposa y sus dos hijos.
