'An epic tale and a brutal evocation of a disappearing world' The TimesA 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.'Intimate and brutal, written in cool, lucid prose it is a novel whose psychological empathy and historical truths are outstanding' Mail on Sunday

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Utgivningsdatum:1998-06-04
Mått:129 x 196 x 34 mm
Vikt:366 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Vintage Contemporaries
Antal sidor:512
Förlag:Vintage Publishing
ISBN:9780099771517
Utmärkelser:Winner of Whitaker Gold Book Award 2001

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Arthur Golden was born and brought up in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He is a 1978 graduate of Harvard College with a degree in art history, specialising in Japanese art. In 1980 he earned an MA in Japanese history from Columbia University where he also learned Mandarin Chinese. After a summer at Beijing University, he went to work at a magazing in Tokyo. In 1988 he recieved an MA in English from Boston University. He has lived and worked in Japan, and since that time has been teaching writing and literature in the Boston area. He now lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with his wife and children

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An epic tale and a beautiful evocation of a rapidly vanishing world

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Välskriven, men...
man får ta hänsyn till att detta är ficiton skrivet av en vit man. Alla detaljer rörande en geishas liv osv, är därmed inte sant.
Agnes L
05 december 2014