Memoirs of a Geisha
Our Thoughts
The tale of a young girl as she moves from her fishing village in rural Japan to Kyoto where she is “owned” by Granny and Mother and eventually trained to become one of the leading Geisha of the 1930s and 40s, definitely worth a read.
Fiction
Vintage Books
2005
503
The "memoirs" of one of Japan's most celebrated geishas describes how, in 1929, as a little girl, 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. Reissue. (A Columbia Pictures film, directed by Rob Marshall, releasing Winter 2005, starring Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Koji Yakusho, & Gong Li) (Historical Fiction)
