Memoirs of a Geisha
- Kategoria:
- literatura piękna
- Tytuł oryginału:
- Memoirs of a geisha
- Wydawnictwo:
- Vintage
- Data wydania:
- 2005-11-22
- Data 1. wydania:
- 2005-11-22
- Liczba stron:
- 436
- Czas czytania
- 7 godz. 16 min.
- Język:
- angielski
- ISBN:
- 9780307275165
- Ekranizacje:
- Wyznania gejszy (2006)
A seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, that 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.